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People are upset because Intel is not allowing people to run benchmarks on their CPUs (the language is so vague that you could argue that running non-CPU benchm
by cyphar 8y ago
People are upset because Intel is not allowing people to run benchmarks on their CPUs (the language is so vague that you could argue that running non-CPU benchmarks, or benchmarks for other software unrelated to Intel would violate this license). So you can't really make a "choice between performance/security", because nobody is allowed to publish data that would let you make an informed choice.
- jve 8y agoQuoted text talks about being upset because of perf, not because of Intel not allowing benchmarks. Not allowing benchmarks - yeah, agree to that, that is a reason to be dissapointed or upset. But people throw words around: lawsuits, upset, etc.
- cyphar 8y agoAll the recent microcode patches to fix CPU security flaws have caused performance degradation, so it's fair to mention that people have been upset about this in the past (anecdotally, I know first-hand that people have disabled the patches because it's started to break software that has significant timeouts -- and they were obviously not happy that this was necessary). It's also (somewhat) fair to assume that this patch would also affect performance until proven otherwise, and Intel changing their license to disallow sharing comparative performance tests doesn't give me much faith that I'm wrong in that assumption.