I think the intention here would be to provoke random jitter. So rather than trying to fight it with constant-time algorithms that turn out not to be under cert

I think the intention here would be to provoke random jitter. So rather than trying to fight it with constant-time algorithms that turn out not to be under certain conditions, we make all the timing unreliably measurable. I think the terminology is little awkward. It's not algorithmic constant time, and it's not wall-clock constant time, but, I suppose, clock rate-relative input-independent time. So the options are 1) don't change the frequency, which has systemic negative effects, or 2) start with input-independent timing and purposefully skew it.