[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[DaveFroble]

chrisv wrote:
> Designed By India H1B Engineers wrote:
> 
>> Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a 
>> performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being 
>> benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five 
>> to 30 per cent slow down, depending on the task and the 
>> processor model.
> 
> This is ugly.  Think of the large computing centers, for example
> Google's data centers.  Suddenly, they will need significantly more
> CPU time, and thus electricity (and thus carbon), to get the job done?
> 

And once all the spanners are tossed into the works, which will slow things 
down, what happens when new CPUs without the issues are available?  Will 
computers forever be artificially slowed down?

A whole bunch of someones has seriously dropped the ball on this.  Protected 
memory should be just that, protected, with no way to avoid the protection.

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