From: EmailNullFile@nospicedham.voenflacbe.cpm   
      
   On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:06:27 +0100   
   Bernhard Schornak  wrote:   
      
   > Bonita Montero wrote:   
   > >> In other words: iNTEL machines will no longer win benchmarks...   
      
   > > Most benchmarks don't make kernel-transitions with   
   > > a frequency that the patch has na noticeably impact.   
   >   
   >   
   > If you read the posting I replied to (and the linked pages!),   
      
   ... posting that   
   ... and the linked-to   
      
   > you will know that iNTEL processors are vulnerable to Spectre   
   > and Meltdown attacks, while AMD processors are vulnerable for   
      
   ... vulnerable to   
      
   > Spectre type 1 and 2 attacks. Hence, major OS workarounds for   
   > closing this safety gap will reduce execution speed for iNTEL   
   > processors dramatically, while workarounds for AMD will cause   
   > less, quite moderate speed loss. If you take a look at recent   
      
   cause moderate   
      
   > benchmarks, iNTEL bought the higher processor speed with less   
   > secure prediction logic. This advantage will be gone with the   
   > first security updates for all major OS'es, so iNTEL machines   
   > will fall behind AMD. (The slowdown is somewhere in the range   
      
   ... range of between   
      
   > between 10 and 50 percent, depending on hardware and OS.) The   
   > speed loss affects all iNTEL machines capable to perform spe-   
      
   ... capable of performing speculative   
      
   > culative execution. As the OS does not 'know' where malicious   
   > code might be injected, it has to provide a really fool proof   
   > woraround for any possible attack (which effectively switches   
      
   workaround   
      
   > speculative execution off).   
   >   
      
   Oops, after corrections, it seems that I've messed up your perfect line   
   lengths.  ;-)  Do you plan to start over?   
      
      
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