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[Closed] Nevermind the iPhone - everyone's computer is going to slow down a lot

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So all my computers updated last night - was that the Meltdown/Spectre patch?


 
Posted : 06/01/2018 10:24 am
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Impact of the microsoft patches:

[b]With Windows 10 on newer silicon[/b] (2016-era PCs with Skylake, Kabylake or newer CPU), benchmarks show single-digit slowdowns, but we don’t expect most users to notice a change because these percentages are reflected in milliseconds.

[b]With Windows 10 on older silicon[/b] (2015-era PCs with Haswell or older CPU), some benchmarks show more significant slowdowns, and we expect that some users will notice a decrease in system performance.

[b]With Windows 8 and Windows 7 on older silicon[/b] (2015-era PCs with Haswell or older CPU), we expect most users to notice a decrease in system performance.

[b]Windows Server on any silicon[/b], especially in any IO-intensive application, shows a more significant performance impact when you enable the mitigations to isolate untrusted code within a Windows Server instance. This is why you want to be careful to evaluate the risk of untrusted code for each Windows Server instance, and balance the security versus performance tradeoff for your environment.

[url= https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/understanding-the-performance-impact-of-spectre-and-meltdown-mitigations-on-windows-systems/ ]sauce[/url]


 
Posted : 11/01/2018 10:50 am
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Apple have release iOS 11.2.2 to update Safari against Spectre:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208401

[url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/01/10/apple-ios-11-2-2-battery-life-iphone-performance-slowdown-throttle/ ]Mixed reports[/url] whether it impacts performance or not.
Seems fine on my SE.


 
Posted : 11/01/2018 10:57 am
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