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I kinda doubt they'd be able to turn off branch prediction and speculative execution entirely and still be able to claim that > the performance impact of these
by Ajedi32 9y ago
I kinda doubt they'd be able to turn off branch prediction and speculative execution entirely and still be able to claim that
> the performance impact of these updates is highly workload-dependent and, for the average computer user, should not be significant
- joeyh 9y agoIf your workload does not branch, no performance impact AND Average user's computer is mostly idle = Above intentionally misleading PR statement.
- bsdetector 9y agoAll they have to do is disable memory fetching during speculative execution so there's no side effects. That probably wouldn't affect performance much, and some unusual workloads might even get faster.