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Tue Jan 16, 2018 8:12 pm
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Re: Design flaw in intel processors...
Don't worry, just overclock your PC by 25% and your good fam.
Chrome is great, fastest Javascript engine I have found, and the ties into google along with the shared history and bookmarks between mobile and desktop, and even across multiple desktops is worth it.Victor Tombs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:50 amI'll be staying with Chrome. I've tried a few other browsers but I'm happy with Chrome.
It might be worth mentioning that the guy behind Brave, who co-founded Mozilla, is also the inventor of JavaScript. Yan Zhu, who worked on TOR, works for Brave, too.Silverware wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:16 amTo be entirely fair, if your JS can get out of it's playpen, then you had issues to begin with.
So that's more a strike AGAINST Brave rather than one for it.
I love Linux, to a degree at least, but honestly I find that Torvalds is an arsehole beyond that of even Trump.
I'm sure you're a highly skilled Systems Administrator, Silver. I know nothing about this Torvalds chap but he sounds like a bit of a w****r. You may have noticed that I don't have much time for those types that start thinking they are "GOD AND MASTER" because they have a particular skillset or believe themselves to be special in some way.Silverware wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:05 pmBut of course, I am just a Systems Administrator working in the field, and Torvalds is the "GOD AND MASTER" of all things Linux, or Linux adjacent.
... Wanker.
I admit to being confused here. The stuff I've read about speculative prediction says it's supposed to improve performance by guessing which path will be taken through conditionals. As long as its predictive algorithm is good enough -- and it ought to be, else why implement it? -- it should have to backtrack less often than it guesses correctly, meaning somewhat faster traversal of the code than if it never guessed at all.Silverware wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:05 pmLeaving Speculative Prediction as a decision for a system administrator is an incredibly useful idea. I've already seen >20% drops in performance for Databases where I support the OS, so allowing me to tell the CPU that I don't actually want this on is important.
Especially as the access to these systems is highly restricted already, and to be able to abuse the bug you need to have a very high level of specific knowledge on the hardware, and the bug, and know in advance the location of the data you want to access in memory.
Probably a little of both, Silver. However, I regret nothing I wrote in my previous post.Silverware wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:33 amAh, I think the issue here is that you guys have failed to read the interview fully. Or misunderstood my own rant. :V
You call that a rant? <chortles>
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