[Cryptography] Speculation considered harmful?

[Nico Williams]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 08:32:32PM -0800, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> The "swarm of puny cores" approach is a bad fit for a lot of problem
> domains, so I'm curious to see if RISC-V implementations can evolve into
> something a bit closer to what we'd use for typical "business logic"-heavy
> server workloads.

It's very good for many cloud workloads that are inherently horizontally
scalable.  It's very bad for workloads that need high sequential
throughput.