X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary
I wonder if the history of x86 is holding us back in a big way. It started out being close to the metal but now it's an abstraction that can mislead you if you think processors are literally working the way x86 assembly describes.<p>And surely the whole spectre issue could be lessened if we could be less reliant on CPUs having to guess what to keep in cache, which code paths are most likely, etc?