CppCast

Meltdown and Spectre


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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
          • ...more
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