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

[Alan Browne]

On 2018-01-04 07:56, Designed By India H1B Engineers wrote:
> Performance hits loom, other OSes need fixes

Stunning.  As someone else mentioned the electricity hit alone could be 
enormous.  Not just in data centres but across all intel users.

Class action suit against intel I think.  This is on the level of the 
FDIV bug of yore.  Worse in some sense.

Must be full cigar time at AMD...

Curiously Apple claim that their mitigation of this has no measurable 
effect on one aspect (CVE-2017-5754 or "rogue data cache load" - aka 
Meltdown) of the flaw (using 3rd party benchmarking s/w); and "only" 
2.5% slowdown in one of three benchmarks for the other flaws ( 
CVE-2017-5753 or "bounds check bypass," and CVE-2017-5715 or "branch 
target injection.").
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394

This makes me wonder if the article's claims of 5 - 30% slowdown (post 
OS fix [Windows, Linux]) are exaggerated or if Apple's fix is either 
miraculous or incomplete.

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