Reply to post: Re: There you have it: security or performance or switch to AMD

Intel, Microsoft confess: Meltdown, Spectre may slow your servers

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Re: There you have it: security or performance or switch to AMD

I suspect the patches that protect Intel users may inadvertently also throttle AMD users in many scenarios. Certainly if the patches come from Intel themselves, then it is likely they would not consider performance optimisation for non-Intel processors a useful goal.

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