Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance

Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance by formerly_proven on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:10AM (#27561122)

> You never sent me a response on the question of what things an app would do that would make it run with MS-DOS and not run with DR-DOS. Is there [a] feature they have that might get in our way?

Bill Gates

> What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS.

MS SVP Brad silverberg

> If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

MS VP Jim alchin

What has changed? Nothing, of course. Settling and paying fines for blatant abuses of dominant market positions has been Microsoft’s MO for decades.

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Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance by revscat on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:17PM (#27563515)

The behaviors described here are intrinsic to capitalism, and are not peculiar to any individual company. The executives quoted here are simply describing the waters they swim in. But they are only one fish in the sea that is liberal governance. The system is the problem, not Microsoft.

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Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance by rbanffy on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:19PM (#27564070)

This system will cause any publicly traded company to behave like a sociopath and limit career paths for non-sociopaths who are unwilling to break (or bend) the law to further their agendas.

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