On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 10:22:25AM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
> All my web-facing servers are running SPARC and/or for a couple smaller
> projects, PowerPC. People thought I was a loon when I vehemently insisted on
> SPARC over the years, and called me crazy when I hosted my personal web
> projects on PowerPC. x86 is a disease.
>
> A little bit extra in electricity costs, and a whole lot extra when it comes
> to peace of mind - niche architectures ftw!
Sparc64 and powerpc also have speculative execution, branch
prediction and extensive caches. It is much wiser to assume they are
also affected by (similar) bugs/explots or whatever you call it.
That said, they are indeed nicer than the Intel stuff that can hardly
be called an architecture.
-Otto
