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Meltdown, Spectre bug patch slowdown gets real – and what you can do about it

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Re: So how much will this throw Intels release schedule out by?

"Corporate IT Managers will not order silicon with a known flaw (regardless of the patch) unless they absolutely have to, because people get fired over this kind of serious shit."

Few of the folks making the purchasing decisions read the errata let alone wait long enough for the showstopper errata to be discovered. Errata such as ECC failures leading to undefined behaviour didn't stop or noticeably delay folks buying the last few gens of Xeon in for example...

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