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[willmore]

If you want used server hardware, that's pretty easy to come by. I see a lot of Gulftown era Xeon boxes with tons of memory for <$200....

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Yeah, for me, x265 has trouble using more than 4 threads effectively. On my old i5-3750X, I got about 85% cpu utilization (quad core, no HT). It's slightly...

[willmore]

If you read through, there's a point in the process where that's what they did. There was a small improvement, but nothing like what you would expect...

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Anyone got a way to email the author? I'm curious how their changes effect ARM. I don't believe they have the same FPU context issues for their crypto...

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Yeah, because asset tagging has never been a thing, ever, so they needed this to solve an unsolved problem. No, wait.......

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There is already a front door way of getting approved information like that in the form of /proc/cpuinfo. This back door attempt is not appreciated....

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Isn't this exactly the thing we fought against so strongly in the pentium era when they wanted to be able to track everyone by having a UUID for each...

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Why do I get the feeling that there's yet another horrible vulnerabilty that's known by a few insiders who are quickly working to patch it and that this...

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As someone who's (tried to at least) done high precision timing work on PC hardware, I can attest to this. MB vendors will often tweak base clocks so...