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Great thread explaining Spectre and Meltdown ->https://twitter.com/gsuberland/status/948907452786933762 …
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Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS) @gsuberland
Explainer on #Spectre & #Meltdown:
When a processor reaches a conditional branch in code (e.g. an 'if' clause), it tries to predict which branch will be taken before it actually knows the result. It executes that branch ahead of time - a feature called "speculative execution".
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