[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

Craig A. Berry wrote:

> Alpha may not have any timer with precision sufficient to snoop the
> cache. This based on the fact that reducing timer precision is one of
> the mitigations in progress and that $GETTIM_PREC only came along in
> v8.3-1H1 and is Itanium only and even with that you only get time to
> the nearest 1ms, assuming I've understood this discussion correctly:

That is irrelevant, people are pulling off Spectre with timing threads,
see the pthread variant(s) here:

https://gist.github.com/ErikAugust/724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9e3d4bb6

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