[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-06-12 15:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-06-12, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2023-06-12 01:33, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> If we approximate security risk as:
>>>
>>> f(applications, threats, practices)
>>>
>>> then my claim is that:
>>>
>>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_2023) <
>>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_1983)
>>>
>>> and:
>>>
>>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_2023) <
>>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_1983)
>>>
>>> I am not claiming that:
>>>
>>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_2023) <
>>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_1983)
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Yeah, that I can agree with.
>>
> 
> OTOH, we live in a world where it is acceptable to place an external
> internet-based dependency to a left-pad function into a production
> code base. :-(

Yes. That is why that last point from Arne is very relevant, which he 
points out he is *not* claiming.

> Bloody Javascript programmers will be the death of us all...

Possibly.

   Johnny