Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com...
by phire on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:22AM
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Haswell massively improved the branch predictor, which gave a significant IPC boost to many real-world workloads (especially emulation and interpreters).
Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com...
by charleslmunger on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:05AM
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How much of that boost remains after patches to Spectre and meltdown?
Ironically, Broadwell's 128MB L4 cache did bring a substantial performance boost to a whole range of real-world applications, but it seems it's so expensive to manufacture that they've subsequently dropped the feature except for Apple's iMacs and expensive laptops.