alt Hacker NewsWhat I don't get is that Chrome is hundreds of megabytes of just executable code, I assumed they statically linked half the userland. Also, I though tanh isn't a function, but an intrinsic emitted by the JS JIt that uses CPU instructions - which might be fingerprintable as well, but it's weird that for a math operation, you need to branch to a 'dlsym()' function.
The x87 FPU implemented transcendental functions in microcode. Most instruction sets don't implement them. Mmicrocode is actually slower than software, since it doesn't get the benefit of things like branch prediction.