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According to some comments under this submission, even x86 assembly isn't suitable, or only under specific circumstances that are generally not available in userspace.



At this time, the idea of a constant-time operation embedded into a language’s semantics is not a thing. Similar for CPU architectures. Our computing base is about being fast and faster.




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