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Revision 31729366e2bc09632e78f3896dbce0ae64914f28 authored by Devin Jeanpierre on 21 November 2020, 08:55:23 UTC, committed by GitHub on 21 November 2020, 08:55:23 UTC 
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (GH-20444)
 
* bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time.

The existing volatile `left`/`right` pointers guarantee that the reads will all occur, but does not guarantee that they will be _used_. So a compiler can still short-circuit the loop, saving e.g. the overhead of doing the xors and especially the overhead of the data dependency between `result` and the reads. That would change performance depending on where the first unequal byte occurs. This change removes that optimization.

(This is change #1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
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Tip revision: 31729366e2bc09632e78f3896dbce0ae64914f28 authored by Devin Jeanpierre on 21 November 2020, 08:55:23 UTC
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (GH-20444)
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