Episode 133
Meltdown and Spectre
Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers.
January 11, 201854m 42s
Show Notes
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
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