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Re: How exactly the CPU fetch instructions from RAM?

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:55 am
by nikito
Very interesting, Thanks!

Re: How exactly the CPU fetch instructions from RAM?

Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:32 am
by Owen
The idea of caches, of course, is to be completely transparent to application software.

Of course, they're not; they cause variable timing, and therefore are forever dealing with inadvertent things like Sidechannel Attacks which occur because of them.