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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by yeukhon on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:08AM (#16059146)
Not sure if it makes any sense and even logical to compare the market before and after Intel's floating point bug was uncovered a decade ago. My bet is this current bug won't shake Intel's stock price much.
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Re:Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors by Certhas on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:58AM (#16060969)
If the workaround being deployed now causes a 30% performance hit in real world usage, even just for some cases, it could hit Intel way harder than fdiv.

A lot of people on Intel will suddenly lose a noticeable amount of performance. Conversely, if your Intel based VMs lose 25% performance, you are now booting up and paying for 20% more VMs for the same load.

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