Can someone explain the meltdown/spectre issue to me as if I was a small child or a moderately smart dog
Basically, today we write software that says, "don't do this unless (...)". We now need to write, "don't even *think* about doing this unless (...)", because today the CPU does think about doing it, before it decides not to.
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Except that today there's no way to even tell it that, so it has to be added to CPUs and programming languages as a feature.
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