Comment on: Google Says Spectre And Meltdown Are Too Difficult To Fix [With Software]

They already are. The Ryzen processor is pretty popular for the desktop. They are the number 1 choice for PC gamers.

ARM processors are in a lot of devices. Pretty much all smart phones (Apple’s A10 chip is an ARM chip). ARM is susceptible to Spectre but not nearly as much as Intel processors. To sum it up, software has to be installed on the device with the ARM processor in order to infect it, where as an Intel chip can just be remotely attacked.

0 23 Feb 2019 18:04 u/MaximilianAldorfer in v/programming
Comment on: TempleOS with its holyC programming language has the potential to replace the behemoth OS's we use today.

Looks like Plan 9

0 01 Sep 2018 11:18 u/MaximilianAldorfer in v/programming