[Cryptography] Speculation considered harmful?

[Howard Chu]

Ray Dillinger wrote:
> 
> If the real impact of this class of attack is as it seems, "we need to
> fundamentally redesign our CPUs", then the obvious question is "what is
> the best way to achieve the desired result within the now
> better-understood design space?"
> 
> This has me thinking about different basic architectures with different
> approaches to getting a lot of computing done in a short time.
> 
> One of them is VLIW, or "Very Long Instruction Word," which exploits
> deliberately explicit instruction level parallelism rather than implicit
> (speculative) instruction parallelism. 

Intel EPIC -> Itanium -> nobody liked that path.
> 
> So....  I've been thinking, and that's one of my thoughts.
> 
> 					Bear



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