Possibly not of immediate concern to time-nuts but an article had some
trigger words for them in the initial fixes to the much publicised
problems with Intel/AMD/ARM etc :
"After these changes, the time stamp returned by |performance.now| will
be less precise due to lower resolution. Some browsers are going a step
further and degrade the accuracy by adding a random jitter."
https://hackaday.com/2018/01/06/lowering-javascript-timer-resolution-thwarts-meltdown-and-spectre/
meltdown/spectre background
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/
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