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> Most high-level languages don't provide guaranteed-constant-time behavior at all. Does even C provide such guarantees? Isn't the compiler free to rewrite the
by Bromskloss 10y ago
> Most high-level languages don't provide guaranteed-constant-time behavior at all.
Does even C provide such guarantees? Isn't the compiler free to rewrite the code it's compiling in whatever way it wishes as long as the output is the same?
- DasIch 10y agoC doesn't and even Assembler doesn't entirely. DJB has pushed and is still pushing(?) Intel to publish more information about these things.