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I am a little out of date on this topic but what effect does Spectre/Meltdown and other mitigations have on newer processors? Is it fundamentally just a softwar
by mindfulplay 6y ago
I am a little out of date on this topic but what effect does Spectre/Meltdown and other mitigations have on newer processors? Is it fundamentally just a software fix going forward? Seems like we are willing to sacrifice in the order of 10% performance at least in the previous generations....
- pstrateman 6y agoFor many workloads the effect was significantly more than 10%. I had to disable mitigations to complete a filesystem checksum, it was on the order of 1000x slower.