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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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 7; pp. 44 - 49
Autor principal: CHISNALL, DAVID
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2018
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