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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by phire on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:22AM (#17826277)
Haswell massively improved the branch predictor, which gave a significant IPC boost to many real-world workloads (especially emulation and interpreters).
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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by charleslmunger on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:05AM (#17827830)
How much of that boost remains after patches to Spectre and meltdown?
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