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Revision db95802bdfac4d13db3e2a391ec7b9e2f8d92dbe authored by Miss Islington (bot) on 22 November 2020, 17:33:09 UTC, committed by GitHub on 22 November 2020, 17:33:09 UTC 
bpo-40791: Make compare_digest more constant-time. (GH-23438)
 
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 GH-1 from https://bugs.python.org/issue40791 .)
(cherry picked from commit 31729366e2bc09632e78f3896dbce0ae64914f28)

Co-authored-by: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@google.com>
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