[Cryptography] Speculation considered harmful?

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 13:33:29 EST 2018


On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 11:02 PM, <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:

> C++ is still struggling to integrate multi processing into the model
> computer that the compiler targets.


This is absolutely untrue. There are *excellent* asynchronous event
frameworks for C++, which (unlike Node) also support multithreading, and
are designed to allow servers to process e.g. 40 gigabits worth of incoming
traffic via userspace networking:

http://www.seastar-project.org/

Node is a toy. And that's all I'm going to say on this matter since the
topic is hardware.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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