Exactly what I was thinking. For libs like MKL it should even be feasible to have a database of known binary releases with a patch offset so you can speed up yo

Exactly what I was thinking. For libs like MKL it should even be feasible to have a database of known binary releases with a patch offset so you can speed up your scientific application using a little patch tool. But even for executables my guess is that it should be relatively easy to programmatically find the relevant check and patch it, unless Intel starts to deliberately obfuscate it, like copy protection checks in games.