> heavy performance penalty to be paid for that predictability I think this is probably a fascinating area of study. It feels like there is a power/time/space

> heavy performance penalty to be paid for that predictability I think this is probably a fascinating area of study. It feels like there is a power/time/space non-linearity and being able to trade one for another. How about the CPU is put into a fixed timestep mode, where all operations take the same amount of time. If there was a hardware level concept of a thread, it could be a thread property. Another option would be a queue of futures with a rate control based on the required security properties.