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Old January 11th 18, 12:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Intel cpu bug fix will slow intel processors down

On 1/3/2018 5:35 PM, Jason wrote:
A serious design flaw in "all modern" Intel cpu's has been discovered.
It potentially allows access to what should be protected kernel memory.
All the vendors are rushing to patch the bug soon, but the fix will slow
down the systems by as much as 20% or more. The bug shows up in context
switching. Details are still proprietary, but here's useful info.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...u_design_flaw/


The issue is only a major issue on servers running a lot of processes
and virtual machines. On a standard desktop PC, they are talking about a
most a 5% performance hit in certain games, that's all. Still kinda bad,
but not as bad.

Yousuf Khan
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