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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by DominikD on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:29AM (#16257070)
And then another developer kindly explained why he's wrong. It's fun to listen to Linus' rants, sure, but he's not always correct.
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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by kabes on Monday January 29, 2018 @09:00AM (#16257484)
And then yet another developer showed there are way better fixes than what intel proposed [1]. So he was correct after all.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/23/25

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:51AM (#16258152)
It's almost as if software development isn't an exact science and there are multiple approaches to any given problem.
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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by richardwhiuk on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:33PM (#16260417)
And that Intel don't have a monopoly on smart software developers. Truly tragic.
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