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		worthless-trash 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trillions spent and big software projects are stil... > 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.

IshKebab 15 days ago [–]

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

worthless-trash 15 days ago | [–]

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

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