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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by rlpb on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:24AM (#16257317)
All I can say is that, based on everything I know, that's not the current experience of the majority of users, so it doesn't seem fair for you to generalize this to some architectural problem. I don't know if you unknowingly have some edge case setup or what.
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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mehrdadn on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:29PM (#16260382)
Also, FYI, update: apparently I'm not the only person in the world experiencing this [1].

But we are the only 2 people in the world experiencing this, so never mind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257935

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mehrdadn on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:35AM (#16257371)
Are you reading the same comments I'm writing? I was literally point-by-point saying the opposite of what you seem to have read me writing:

> You: All I can say is that, based on everything I know, that's not the current experience of the majority of users

>> Me: Yet from everyone's comments here I'm guessing I must be the only one who encounters this.

???

> You: It doesn't seem fair for you to generalize this to some architectural problem.

>> Me: I don't get why it happens in every instance, and there might be lots of different reasons in different instances. IPC mismatch is my best guess for a significant fraction of the incidents.

???

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