Re:Downfall Attacks
by jl6 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:56PM
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There’s a marketing opportunity here to put multi-core back in the spotlight. Most workloads have reached the point of diminishing returns for adding more cores to a CPU, but if it turns out we need more cores just so we can run more concurrent processes (or browser tabs) securely, then here come the 128-core laptop chips…
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Intel playing 4D chess to sell more new hardware
From a user’s perspective I often think that applications which run multiple processes, demand multiple threads and large chunks of memory are too entitled.
I know it’s a (not even) half baked thought. But there’s something to that. We never really think of “how many resources is this application allowed to demand?”
Software would be orders of magnitudes faster if there was some standard, sensible way of giving applications fixed resource buckets.