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I guess we know why Intel tried on that benchmarking restriction. Serving static content from Nginx is a 22% drop on Intel, a 7% drop on AMD. That's huge for cl
by galadran 8y ago
I guess we know why Intel tried on that benchmarking restriction. Serving static content from Nginx is a 22% drop on Intel, a 7% drop on AMD. That's huge for cloud providers!
- GrayShade 8y agoThe microcode update allowed an optimization (VMX conditional cache flushes) for virtual machine hosts. It was just a lawyer having fun, I guess.
- yoklov 8y agoThe theory I heard that seems more likely than a rogue lawyer, is that it accidentally got left in from the license of a pre-release test version -- I can understand why they'd want to prevent benchmarks of unreleased software (not that I necessarily agree with that).