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Re:Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown a... by hafta on Friday January 12, 2018 @11:39AM (#16134158)
> var BASE_ADR=zzzz;//Make BASE points to a random 256 bit currently uncached memory block that appplication has access to;

That should be 256 bytes.

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Re:Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown a... by unclepresent on Friday January 12, 2018 @11:44AM (#16134192)
yep, corrected. at the end it is a bit more complex than that as cache is populated in 32-128 bytes increments but I leave it out for simplicity
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