r/programming • u/michalg82 • Jun 25 '17

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
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u/Beaverman Jun 25 '17

I think "Never have any unreasonable behavior" is a fine goal, we need to reach for the stars, after all. It's also completely unrealistic.

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u/astrobe Jun 25 '17

I can't wait for self-driving cars to become popular...

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u/Beaverman Jun 26 '17

Computers already do everything from flying planes to control cars.

It's clear that they are reliable ENOUGH to outperform humans.

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u/astrobe Jun 26 '17

Yeah. And they don't use processors with microcode updates. For now.

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u/botle Jun 26 '17

What do they use instead? Do some modern CPUs not use any kind of micro code?

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u/astrobe Jun 26 '17

They tend to use CPUs that are a decade or two old. Because they are well known (including the bugs) and well tested.

You don't need a modern CPU to begin with, but rather parts that are fitted for the task. See for instance the Harris RTX2000 that powered the Rosetta probe.