They may not. It all depends on how they handle context switching for kernel mode access.
This is going to be very interesting at the CPU maker level, too... The GPU vendors may not be out of the woods, either. Regards, *ASB* On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Jack Kramer <j...@smalltype.net> wrote: > It wouldn’t surprise me if Apple actually ends up with a speed advantage > after all this shakes out given their kernel architecture. The Mach guys > are finally going to have a win of sorts. > > ---- > Jack Kramer > > > On Jan 4, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> > wrote: > > None. > > > > Microsoft says it’s “minimal but dependent on customer workload”. This is > confirmed by what I’ve seen posted on twitter so far. A couple of > percentage points. > > > > Linux is seeing a minimum of 5% performance reduction and as high as 23% > (so far). It may, for once, finally be true to say: Windows is faster than > Linux. J > > > > (Paul Thurrott is gloating about this on twitter.) > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Joseph L. > Casale > *Sent:* Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:54 AM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] New blog post: Windows Speculative Execution > Client/Server Patches/Mitigations/Detection Summary > > > > Which article quantifies the performance degradation? > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsadmin@lists. > myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] *On Behalf Of *Ed Ziots > *Sent:* Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:34 AM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] New blog post: Windows Speculative Execution > Client/Server Patches/Mitigations/Detection Summary > > > > Yeah this one is going to be a nasty one but looks like cloud service > providers are patching for it now. But saw there might be a 30 percebt > performance hit with windows.. is pretty ugly.. > > > > Nice job intel.. way to mess it up again. > > > > Ed > > > > On Jan 4, 2018 8:54 AM, "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: > > New blog post: #Windows Speculative Execution Client/Server > Patches/Mitigations/Detection Summary > > http://www.essential.exchange/2018/01/04/windows- > speculative-execution-client-server-patches-mitigations-detection-summary/ > > > > Not intended to be comprehensive, but as of the morning of 4-January, all > the worthwhile information I can find published by Microsoft on the > Speculative Execution issue… > >
