when the coffee starts to taste like implementing x25519 in 6502 assembly
The fun thing about simple CPUs with no cache, branch predictors, and any of that other crap that nobody needs, is that you *can* have branches in constant-time algorithms as long as you count the cycles on each side of the branch to make sure they're equal
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@retr0id Does no cache mean no TLB either?

@robryk indeed, virtual memory is a scam by big CPU to sell more page tables
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