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[milkylainen]

SERIALIZE.
Is that like: "Hey. We can't verify our designs, so here is an instruction to reduce it to i586 speed so you can make sure you don't...

[milkylainen]

People need to separate technology from the filth that is mankind.
I have no issues with technology. I have issues with man.
Yeah, yeah. But...

[milkylainen]

No. VLIW has nothing to do with anything you are thinking of.
A VLIW machine is probably still a dynamically scheduled machine.
VLIW was a...

[milkylainen]

VLIW has nothing do with anything here. You're mixing up computer architecture concepts....

[milkylainen]

Slow news day?
Stupid PC gaming hardware broken, some nice guy lands fix for Linux, adding to the zillion other fixes for stupid hardware?

[milkylainen]

Why should they?
I think it's pretty clear (no pun intended) that Intel has no intention of becoming a long term stable distribution player with...

[milkylainen]

I don't understand the criticism towards Clear Linux. Can't say I'm a fan of it or that I use it much.
But did Intel claim all type of stuff hardware...

[milkylainen]

Yes please!

[milkylainen]

Vectorization and architecture support is not the same as structured optimized assembly for complex data.
But if the code structure was different,...

[milkylainen]

Not caring about their performance difference enough to switch.
Firefox does a good enough job for me. I'd rather take the small performance hit...

[milkylainen]

Yes. Because everyone at Intel is either a CPU Architect or an Hardware Description Language engineer....
There are absolutely no other roles needed...

[milkylainen]

Absolutely. But that's also why I called RTCs "usually horribly inaccurate" (nor are they precise). It was a reply to:
"In the vast...

[milkylainen]

Yeah. Pretty much expected it. From whatever I said in the previous LVI article.
The idea however is not to apply this "liberally", as...

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Are they? I have done a few projects with nanosecond precision and accuracy in Linux. To me, there is no end to how cheap and worthless high-precision...

[milkylainen]

I've always been under the impression that trusting a computer with "knowing time" without external synchronization (NTP, PTP, PPS, GPS etc,...

[milkylainen]

lfence after loads. lfence after indirect branch. lfence before ret.
Brilliant. Why not just serialize the entire pipeline while we are at it?...

[milkylainen]

Oh, it's even worse than the base SGX-enclave type attacks. LVI can probably be used to steal any data.
Cross kernel/user boundaries and between...

[milkylainen]

Second that. Really confusing headline. What is a "GPU Compression Codec"? Texture? Video? Arbitrary crap?
After reading I came to the...

[milkylainen]

Yes. Obviously. But this article is about ARM and what is likely to be tight core packaging.
I fail to see the major point f.ex. a cellphone big.little...

[milkylainen]

I'm doubting the benefits of this. Sounds rather obvious, but cores sit very tight in the core complex of a SoC.
If you're running one core hot,...