Comment by worthless-trash
2 months ago
> That must be why we have exactly one branch predictor design, lol
I'll be that 'well akshually' guy. IIRC the AMD and intel implementations are different enough that spectre/meltdown exploits were slightly different on each manufacturers.
Source: wrote exploits.
It was sarcasm. There are loads of branch predictor designs.
Sorry, I had missed that. I'll go back to my cave.