Reply to post: Re: Hard as I try...

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Hard as I try...

At least one person proposed something even simpler, in essence saving the speculative state along with thread/task state, and restoring it on thread/task switch.

I'm curious why you think this would close the cache timing channel. Or indeed most other side channels.

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