> AMD was also measurably slower to begin with, in terms of per-core performance. Not so surprising now that we know Intel merely skipped a lot of checks to ge

> AMD was also measurably slower to begin with, in terms of per-core performance. Not so surprising now that we know Intel merely skipped a lot of checks to get there though. I mean a lot of the vulnerabilities impacting Intel only have been the likes of "when predicting, the processor does it even it shouldn't to avoid the delay from checking". Is it really fair then to say that AMD doing it the proper way was slower, or that the loss of performance of Intel can't be used as a way to congratulate AMD on being safer on that front ?