"...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..."
PostgreSQL: 10%-23% slowdown. Wow. That is not trivial. From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> To: ntsysadm <NTSysADM@lists.myitforum.com>, Patch Management Mailing List <patchmanagem...@listserv.patchmanagement.org> Date: 01/02/2018 06:59 PM Subject: [NTSysADM] Oh, this one really hurts... Sent by: <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> "A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
