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Comment by worthless-trash

3 days 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.

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IshKebab  3 days ago

It was sarcasm. There are loads of branch predictor designs.

  • worthless-trash  3 days ago

    Sorry, I had missed that. I'll go back to my cave.

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