From: Walter.H-Nntp@nospicedham.mathemainzel.info   
      
   Hello,   
      
   On 03.01.2018 19:38, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
   >   
   > Apparently, Intel processor's for over the past decade are allowing   
   > speculative execution of code without any privilege checks.  The exact   
   > specifics of the flaw are apparently still secret.  The software   
   > patches to fix these issues for Windows, Linux, and Mac's are believed   
   > to kill processor performance by up to 30%.   
      
   you're talking about meltdown and/or spectre;   
      
   just a primitive question:   
      
   as you just mentioned that there will be patches for Windows, Linux, ...   
   so it is assumed the problem doesn't exist on patched systems;   
      
   but: isn't this a problem of these operating systems itself?   
      
   or in other words, I found a programme   
   https://github.com/ionescu007/SpecuCheck   
   which gives informations if the problem exists or not;   
      
   but what does it say, when it has requirements, the OS hasn't - e.g. on   
   old OS like Windows XP?   
      
   I can't compile it for WinXP ...   
      
   Thanks,   
   Walter   
      
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