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Just a heads up, the Spectre protection flag in Visual Studio will only provide a very weak and narrow protection against Spectre.

 

Good article about why can be found here:
Microsoft’s compiler-level Spectre fix shows how hard this problem will be to solve

  1. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Hardware level solution in the next few years?

  2. Jtalk4456

    Jtalk4456

    i think the hardware level solution will be buying a non affected CPU...

  3. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Jtalk4456 Any CPU that uses speculative execution is potentially vulnerable.

    That includes AMD as well.  Although AMD's architecture makes it immune to the meltdown part of the exploit, Specter v1 and v2 is still possible to execute on an AMD machine.

  4. Jtalk4456

    Jtalk4456

    @Cinnabar Sonar Yes but in coming CPU's they are going to figure out a way to get rid of the vulnerability. Not sure if this years CPU's but at least by next year. They have to fix it otherwise people will be very pissy at both companies

  5. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Jtalk4456 That's what I was referring to when I said "Hardware level solution in the next few years?".

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