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

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Re: It's interesting...

Currently ARM servers can handle Internet requests pretty well. In this scenario having plenty of cores and dedicated hardware for the network can get you far. Faster CPUs with fewer cores don't do well here, as they consume too much energy (cooling) and space.

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