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Replying to myself: most of the info can be found here * https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/reading-pr... * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl... * https://meltdownattack.com/ https://meltdownattack.com/ * https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution * https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r... TL;DR is that mitigation for Spectre on an OS level is not very expensive in terms of performance while Meltdown mitigation, which affects only Intel, will have a performance penalty between 5% and 30%