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The problem, I feel, is with the Coffee Lake and Kaby Lake R release after learning of Spectre and Meltdown.
by chx 9y ago
The problem, I feel, is with the Coffee Lake and Kaby Lake R release after learning of Spectre and Meltdown.
- bonzini 9y agoSpectre can be avoided (at small performance cost on new CPUs) with microcode updates and OS fixes. Meltdown can be fixed just at the OS level. At this point, whether you're releasing a chip with or without the vulnerability is not an issue. Fixing them will make you look better in benchmarks if anything, because you don't need anymore the slow PTI mitigation.