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That would be interesting to know more about. What's the point of paying the speed hit of spectre (and meltdown?) mitigations if they are ineffective?
by 0x0 6y ago
That would be interesting to know more about. What's the point of paying the speed hit of spectre (and meltdown?) mitigations if they are ineffective?
- ungamed 6y agoBecause the current mitigations were believed to attack the known affected code paths.
- skynet-9000 6y agomitigations? you mean exploits?
- silly-silly 6y agos/attack/protect/
- Sunspark 6y agoIt's not worth it on older CPUs. I turned them off. I understand browsers already have some protection against them now. I don't see the point in slowing down the entire system, either I trust the apps I have or I don't. I don't believe a magic packet containing a melted down spectre is going to smash through my router and everything else and turn into skynet on my humble PC.