HOT TAKE on the recent CPU Bugs
https://twitter.com/ellism/status/949738785159364608 [twitter.com]
2019-02-06 22:40
You weep over the side channel attacks and you curse Intel. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that speculative execution, while dangerous, probably saves cores. And my optimizations, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, save cores. You don’t want in order execution because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want the most instructions per cycle.