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Oh, but it does mitigate - just turns out it don't mitigate enough.

• bhawks 5y ago
  s/reservation/mitigation/ https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc Jokes aside - I understand the difficulty to adequately defend against meltdown/spectre. When the exploits were released I was running a service which definitely needed protection from this type of attack. Ironically we had just finished a set of optimizations that would have reduced our cpu costs quite nicely, the mitigations ate all those wins and more. I guess I'm still bitter - I no longer own that system but it really frustrated me to hear that it apparently was still vulnerable to spectre style attacks.
  • danuker 5y ago
    > ate all those wins and more. At least you still have a relative advantage: if you had not optimized, the CPU costs would have increased even more.
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