On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:29:31 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

On 2018-01-05 10:09, Doomsdrzej wrote:

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%.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
0 slowdown for the Meltdown fix.

2.5% slowdown for the Spectre fix in one of three benchmarks. Belying
what you say above. So your "credentials" are decaying quick.

[3rd party benchmarks]

Not clear if the fix will be "improved" in 10.13.3 (the next update) and
whether that will impact CPU.

Since I don't want to just take Apple's word for it or that of one of
its zealots, I prefer to look at actual benchmarks. I don't believe
Windows zealots either and want raw data. Here is Phoronix, a Linux
site, showing the performance impact of the patch:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-415-x86pti&num=2

Now, you can be classy and apologize or continue being a dick. I
imagine that you'll choose the latter.

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.

That's just bad math. If something is slow, then a percentage slowdown
is much more noticeable than the same percentage slowdown on a faster
machine.

What in particular is slower about Mac OS?

Filesystem, application load time, game performance, OpenGL in
general, etc.. Here's a link on game performance from 2015. There is
no reason to believe that things are any better today.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=hRfqNuyyPvQ

BTW, Mac OS is generally used by people with higher educational
achievement as well as higher income brackets. But then ...

What an irrelevant thing to mention. Be quiet.