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Why do I suddenly feel like Itanium's design has been vindicated by Meltdown and Spectre?

Can't suffer from out-of-order or speculative execution vulnerabilities if you can't execute out-of-order or speculatively, after all.

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@bhtooefr or most GPU's which don't do this either. They just have a lot of 'threads' and accept that many of them might need to pause to wait for memory etc.