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It is a moving target. A lot of "day 1" patches have absolutely tanked performance only to regain performance later via smarter mitigations. Both Linux and Wind
by Someone1234 7y ago
It is a moving target. A lot of "day 1" patches have absolutely tanked performance only to regain performance later via smarter mitigations. Both Linux and Windows as well as microcode updates have all seen some of the performance loss regained.
And while it would be nice to call any point "the end" and measure then, as of two weeks ago they were still finding additional vulnerabilities and patching them. So if there is an end we aren't there yet.
That all being said, I am also curious on what the results would show. Just very hard to pin down.
- rincebrain 7y agoTo be fair, at least Microsoft explicitly went with finding perf optimizations elsewhere to reduce the impact, not smarter mitigations (though they also eventually did that when they decided to go for retpoline).