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Re:Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next ... by berkut on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:48PM (#16111268)
For private servers that are totally not connected to the internet in any way and don't need to be, run self-developed code on data which is mainly CPU-bound but also need a lot of disk IO for reading files and memory mapping data, I'm pretty certain it'll make a noticeable difference, for no security benefit.
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Re:Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next ... by appleflaxen on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:22PM (#16111491)
but isn't it pretty easy to avoid the security update on those machines?
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Re:Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next ... by mrpopo on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:43PM (#16112179)
In the short term, maybe. But the OS update processes are incremental. If the user wants to upgrade their OS version for some reason (new feature, etc), they will get the performance hit bundled together.
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