On: V8: A Year with Spectre

[kllrnohj]

> And we've been doing that for as long as microprocessors have had OoOE

Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left?

> Java got big right when the first consumer OoOE chips came out in the 90s.

Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?

[monocasa → kllrnohj]

> Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left?

BPF has existed since the mid 90s for one example.

> Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?

Java and the client web were next to inseparable concepts at the time. Java ran their VM as a shared library in the browser process for applets.