Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by treis on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:44AM
(#27560405)
I thought the browsers had put in their own mitigations that stop spectre/meltdown attacks.
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Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by eloff on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:54AM
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They tried. The V8 team eventually gave up and said it was unwinnable.
What they did do is move tabs to their own process so they can take average of the operating systems protections. Yes you can read the memory of the process hosting the JavaScript, but now there isn't anything interesting in it. Google's security team released a proof of concept attack that can read the memory in the renderer in many systems.
Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by jacquesm on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:04AM
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average -> advantage
Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by eloff on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:42PM
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Man mobile keyboards suck. Any idiot knows the word average doesn't work there (at minimum you'd have to preface it with the word "the"), so why can't my keyboard run an ML model that's not an idiot?
Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by richrichardsson on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:18AM
(#27568418)
Didn't even notice until reading this comment! I think my brain said, "starts with an A, got a V near the beginning, ends in AGE, must be ADVANTAGE in this context."