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Re:AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible N... by vbezhenar on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:29AM (#21281799)
Are you sure that they sacrifice speed for security? It's not obvious to me. Hardware fixes are supposed to be fast. That 20% slowdown comes from software implementation (and you can actually disable it).
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Re:AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible N... by plopz on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:36AM (#21281884)
I wasn't aware that the fixes for spectre and meltdown had no impact on performance.
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