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		olliej on Jan 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit Cmov can speculate as well (it makes sense from a performance standpoint but that isn’t the same as secure ;) )

om2 on Jan 9, 2018 [–]

On some CPUs, cmov is known not to speculate, but in those cases it is apparently super slow.

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