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Couldn't VMs zero all registers when switching? It shouldn't be much more latency than a typical context switch. Also purge CPU cache to be safe.


It does zero registers when context switching, but only the "logical" registers, not the physical ones, as described in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855266




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