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

[Dean Woodward]

On 1/5/2018 8:07 AM, Alan Browne via Info-vax wrote:
> All that said, the 5 - 30% load increase seems to be speculative / 
> theoretical.  And maybe you're right that it will mostly affect people 
> using their computers to the hilt a lot of the time and not most 
> "casual" users.   Alas, I do render videos often but can't say my Mac 
> (OS 10.13.2) has seen any impact (nor can I say it hasn't - nothing 
> noticable IOW).

Linux patches are already out; a friend that does lots of video 
rendering reports testing the render of a given video before/after as 
being 14:05 (mm:ss) before the patch, 14:30 after, +/- 2s. So some hit, 
but not 30%.

I suspect (and has been speculated by some with more in-depth 
understanding) that virtualized server providers will be hit much harder.