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Re:Downfall Attacks by bee_rider on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:44PM (#37053638)
I wish chips would come with a core devoted to running this kind of untrusted code; maybe they could take something like an old bonnell atom core, strip out the hyper threading, and run JavaScript on that.

If a script can’t run happily on a core like that, it should really be a program anyway, and I don’t want to run it.

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Re:Downfall Attacks by hsbauauvhabzb on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:53PM (#37053755)
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I have a hard time believing web developers would be capable of writing code efficient enough to share a single core. LinkedIn was slamming my CPU so much that I isolated it in a separate browser
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Re:Downfall Attacks by bee_rider on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:58PM (#37053844)
I think you are right, my wish involves living in a slightly different universe where the web has taken a slightly less silly direction of development.
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