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Most of this single core improvement, if I understand correctly, comes speculative execution and larger caches (rather than shorter pipelines), which -- in the
by beagle3 9y ago
Most of this single core improvement, if I understand correctly, comes speculative execution and larger caches (rather than shorter pipelines), which -- in the context of crypto -- means that implementations go to great length to avoid the features that speed up execution, specifically BECAUSE they leak information.
- krylon 9y agoFair point. Now, I know just enough about cryptography to know I know nearly nothing about it, so maybe someone can put this into context: Wouldn't a multi threaded crypto implementation open up a whole bunch of new potential attacks?