Good comment and article, thanks! One thing only, the phrase "The quest for high ILP was the direct cause of Spectre and Meltdown" is slightly exaggerated. One might say ILP was rather a remote indirect cause, not the direct cause. Blaming it on C and ILP maybe is kind of far fetched.
That isn't to say that the article doesn't have a point though, far from it.
That isn't to say that the article doesn't have a point though, far from it.