C Is Not a Low-Level Language.

The article discusses the root causes of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Topics include the false belief that the C computer programming language was a low-level language, processors' reliance on instruction-level parallelism, and the need for a processor designed purely for speed that wou...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 7; pp. 44 - 49
Main Author:	CHISNALL, DAVID
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2018
Subjects:	Computer security vulnerabilities Programming languages C (Computer program language) Parallel processing Vector processing (Computer science)
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