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evmar
on April 20, 2022
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Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
The "use ASLR for random seed" trick in there is pretty cute, but I noticed it will just silently not work in non-ASLR settings, and in particular under Wasm.
spb
on April 21, 2022
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Recent versions of Lua use this trick as well.
sedatk
on April 21, 2022
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Is there any other way to generate entropy without an OS dependency?
mhh__
on April 21, 2022
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timestamp counter?
sedatk
on April 21, 2022
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Only works on x86.
mhh__
on April 21, 2022
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As far as entropy generation goes other architectures have equivalents, albeit a few more instructions than just rdtsc
IshKebab
on April 21, 2022
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Not the end of the world though surely.
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