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Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt
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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Jan 12, 2018
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Podcast episode
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Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers. Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created Compiler Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript. News More C++ Idioms C++ Tips of the Week (Abseil) Retpoline: a software construct for preventing branch-target-injection GCC 8.0 supports std::filesystem now Matt Godbolt @mattgodbolt Matt Godbolt's blog Links Compiler Explorer CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt "What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid" GOTO 2016: Matt Godbolt "Emulating a 6502 system in Javascript" GOTO 2014: Matt Godbolt "x86 Internals for Fun & Profit" Patreon: Matt Godbolt is creating Compiler Explorer Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Note VU#584653 Sponsors Backtrace Embo++ Hosts @robwirving @lefticus
Released:
Jan 12, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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