The Meltdown, Specter flaw, which is a derivative of the Intel processor, has set off a global fix. Win10 yesterday forced four users to install a patch. Apple acknowledged that all Mac / iOS products have sprung up. Microsoft Azure / Amazon AWS / Aliyun / Tencent Cloud Next week planning a full platform emergency maintenance.
However, a problem has not been answered positively, in the end patch will weaken the performance of it?
Forbes's argument is, Intel processors from 1995 to 2013 may have performance drops of up to 50%, with little after Skylake.
However, Intel did not respond positively, but repeatedly stressed that it depends on the workload, At the same time stressed that even if the temporary decline, the follow-up will be amended.
Currently, only Linux father Linus Torvalds inadvertently admitted 4.15 candidate kernel, due to AMD processor immunity, it joined the AMD PTI patch correction order, the purpose is to save performance.
In order to find out the problem, In particular, the impact of ordinary PC users of Windows 10, foreign media did a test.