Re: Hardened toolchain

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2022-04-28, Aurora wrote:
> Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Everyone has different threat models and needs. A lot of computers have CPU 
>> speculative execution attack mitigation disabled because those types of 
>> attacks will never affect those computers, and it reduces the performance of 
>> the CPU a lot.
>
> There are multicore processors made in the last decade or two that
> aren't affected by speculative execution vulnerabilities?

There are some, such as the ARM-based Allwinner A64 used in in the
pinebook and pinephone. Probably various processors targeted at the
mobile market as well.


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  vagrant

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