Microsoft predicts performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown fixes
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The continued response to the challenges presented by the Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution vulnerabilities has been somewhat overshadowed by all of the shiny new hardware on display in Las Vegas this week, but technology companies are still working to sort out the matter. Terry Myerson, the Executive VP of Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group wrote a blog post about Redmond's response to the vulnerabilities with a prediction of what users of new and old Intel CPUs can expect in terms of performance impact after the patches.
Microsoft expects that most users of Windows 10 on Skylake and newer CPUs won't notice the small reduction in performance that will come with the microcode and software patches. The ...