On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 11:32:52 +1300, Your Name
wrote:

On 2018-01-04 15:28:17 +0000, chrisv said:
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?

It aint just Intel either. The three different CPU issues affect chips
from Intel, AMD, and ARM (no mention anywhere of PowerPC or Apple's own
A-series), and affect virtually all devices sold in the last 15 years -
computers, tablets, smartphones, etc.!

That's gonna be one heck of a clean up bill! :-(

The _only_ processors which will suffer a performance slowdown as a
result of these problems are Intel ones. Spectre affects all chips and
the fix does not affect performance. Meltdown affects processors built
since 1995 by *Intel* and the fix will slow them down up to around
65%.

Apple has already partially fixed the problems in the MacOS X High
Sierra update 10.13.2 (with no noticeable performance slow-down) and
further fixes due in the up-coming 10.13.3 update currently in beta
testing.

Users of old versions of OS X may well be stuck though and not get any update.

Mac OS is already a slow piece of poop that caters to the dumbest
elements of society so I doubt that any of the retards using it would
notice a slowdown of their slow as molasses operating system no matter
how significant it was.