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cmn32480
on Wednesday May 23 2018, @06:47PM
from the your-computer-is-not-a-fast-PDP-11 dept.
from the your-computer-is-not-a-fast-PDP-11 dept.
Very interesting article at the IEEE ACM by David Chisnall.
In the wake of the recent Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, it's worth spending some time looking at root causes. Both of these vulnerabilities involved processors speculatively executing instructions past some kind of access check and allowing the attacker to observe the results via a side channel. The features that led to these vulnerabilities, along with several others, were added to let C programmers continue to believe they were programming in a low-level language, when this hasn't been the case for decades.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:59PM (2 children)
Why does the word keep getting used with regard to programming? I just don't understand that. Is it because of the Microsoft product?
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Wednesday May 23 2018, @08:09PM
Visual in the abstract context "to visualize; a -mental- image of how something works or is put together".
There, now you may go mental. I see blue.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday May 24 2018, @04:41PM
Because so much cyber is done by men. Almost all of it. And men are very visually oriented. (o)(o)