Reply to post: Re: Fabbing is really expensive

FYI: Processor bugs are everywhere – just ask Intel and AMD

Charles 9

Re: Fabbing is really expensive

"The root cause of the problem is the combination of the following subsystems of a processor’s microarchitecture. Note that none of the individual components is to be blamed for the vulnerability - it is how they work together"

IOW, we have a "gestfault" here: something worse than the sum of the parts.

As for solutions, why not find a way to solve the bottleneck of context switching so that it can be used more liberally to keep things more separated without killing your performance?

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