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I turn Spectre/Meltdown protection off (download InSpectre if you run Windows). My Haswell machine gets a noticeable boost (e.g. about 5% increase in Intel XTU
by Ragib_Zaman 7y ago
I turn Spectre/Meltdown protection off (download InSpectre if you run Windows). My Haswell machine gets a noticeable boost (e.g. about 5% increase in Intel XTU benchmark), but newer architectures are less negatively affected by the patches so you may not find the effort/risk to be worth it.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoI am amused at the threat model that might be concerned, on one hand, with extremely complex and difficult speculation attacks, and on the other hand permits downloading random Windows apps and running them at the highest possible privilege level. Clearly the public is of two minds.
- MrStonedOne 7y agoThe owner of the device is not a threat actor, and trying to pass them off as one in your example is silly.
- icedchai 7y agoNo, but the organization providing the code could be...