Reply to post: Re: The Current Spectre / Meltdown Mitigation Overhead Benchmarks On Linux 5.0

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

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Holmes

Re: The Current Spectre / Meltdown Mitigation Overhead Benchmarks On Linux 5.0

I remember the first patches hitting me (Intel) hard. I was running stuff in a VM and it suddenly felt like the handbrake was on.

Don't be mislead by the average penalties of those mitigations. It depends mostly on what you are doing - and in some cases, you're fûcked!

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