Speculative-Execution

• Microarchitectural Attacks: Spectre, Meltdown, and the Transient Execution Apocalypse · 2023-04-06

  A deep analysis of Spectre v1-v4, Meltdown, and the root cause in speculative execution, covering the endless cycle of mitigations and new attack variants that exploit the microarchitectural state.

• Branch Prediction and Speculative Execution: How Modern CPUs Gamble on the Future · 2021-08-15

  Explore how modern processors predict branch outcomes and execute instructions speculatively, the algorithms behind branch predictors, the performance implications for your code, and the security vulnerabilities like Spectre that emerged from these optimizations.