From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-17 14:46:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail From: Stefan Skoglund Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:59:39 +0200 Organization: Telenordia Message-ID: <3B784DCB.A3BF419D@ebox.tninet.se> References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <9kbvsr$a02@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3B69DB35.4412459E@home.com> <9kp9n7$ivm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <1exve0j.1lboe8gneysd0N%clarkcox3@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: du44-147.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: zingo.tninet.se 998084556 13285 195.100.147.44 (17 Aug 2001 21:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 2001 21:42:36 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en,en-US Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12078 comp.lang.c++:83551 Date: 2001-08-17T21:42:36+00:00 List-Id: Bart.Vanhauwaert@nowhere.be wrote: > Given modern CPU's it is actually a loss to agressively unroll > or inline. ichache pressure and such does that to you. In a lot > of cases a missed cache hit is much more costly than a simple, > easy to branch predict call. Nothing is modern about a MilStd 1750 CPU !! Remember that a number of people on comp.lang.ada is embedded system programmers which must adopt to some very restricted platforms. Does it exist any intel offerings now which is RadHard ?