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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Plus a lot of these bugs don't get fixed, because they exist to allow the processors to "look ahead" for improved performance, at least on unmitigated benchmark tests.