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?

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maintain that they are GLAD Linux is buggy and error prone because it
puts off the great unwashed that would otherwise pollute the Linux
gene pool." - "True Linux advocate" Hadron Quark