11:31 <nsh> cjd, tangential to your proc arch proposal: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2018/EECS-2018-151.html

11:31 <nsh> .t

11:31 <yoleaux> Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:31:28 UTC

11:31 <nsh> .title

11:31 <yoleaux> A Highly Productive Implementation of an Out-of-Order Processor Generator | EECS at UC Berkeley

11:31 <nsh> 'Our processor generator is called BOOM, and it designed for use in education, research, and industry. Like most contemporary high-performance cores, BOOM is superscalar (able to execute multiple instructions per cycle) and out-of-order (able to execute instructions as their dependencies are resolved and not restricted to their program order). '

12:14 <cjd> Thanks, grabbed it

12:14 <cjd> BTW on another note, do you know if there's anything in the literature on "proof of no duplicates" in merkle trees ?

12:15 <cjd> Intuitively, it seems that you can require that the entries in the tree be sorted by hash and include the covered range in each merkle node

12:16 <cjd> But it would be much easier to describe this to people if there has already been a paper

12:22 <cjd> Also I've been reading Agner Fog's microarchitecture book which is quite helpful in explaining what the world needs from branch prediction... I'm really tempted to shove it off on the software by saying "send me a bitmask and I'll predict the next 32 branches to go the way your bits specify"

12:23 <cjd> My general thesus is that software follows different rules than hardware, so whatever can be "softwariszed" (through CNC, 3d printing, dumber processors, etc) is going to undergo a rennesance

16:44 <cjd> Anti-duplicate merkle tree: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/tGqz-w7uGs7TFsuuW2ooYcTNG7quQUBXgq4VQ0usPFg/embed/present/

16:44 <cjd> Hoping someone wrote a paper on this so I don't have to try to explain everything from scratch :)

16:47 <nsh> somehow that fails to work in both firefox+noscript and chrome+nothing

19:34 <cjd> nsh: cryptpad requires js because it's zero knowledge (meaning server doesn't know the content), it's open source and I know the developers so if you have anything from the console I can pass it along

19:38 <nsh> just tries to init in a loop

19:38 <nsh> have unblocked as far as able

19:38 <nsh> ah, it's a content-security policy problem

19:39 <cjd> Oh, that's my fault, from back when I worked on the project :)

19:39 <cjd> I put a pretty strict CSP on it

19:39 <cjd> do you have the error message ?