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by gary_0 249 days ago
The article is talking about OoO which is why I mentioned it. My point is that branch prediction and speculative execution are different things. You can do speculative execution without a branch predictor (run both branches and throw out the one that's wrong).
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You're right, I missed the article specifically mentions Meltdown in that sentence, not Spectre.