[forgotpw2018]

Intel's PR dept is in overdrive, but the truth about this vulnerability is that it's essentially worst-case.

It really only affects workloads where high performance is important. The average user might not see an impact but if you need fast IO God help you. The solution is to 'make less syscalls' but the problem is that syscalls have always been slow and the people making a lot of them are only doing so because they absolutely have to

[djsumdog]

I wonder if we'll start seeing more userspace storage drivers because of this.

If anything, for big shops like this one, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a move away from hosted providers (the "cloud" .. god I still hate it when people use that word), and return to co-located setups.

At least for people who need immediately performance needs, AMD might make a lot of short term sales right now.

[walshemj]

will be interesting to see the trend in sales of threadripper an eypc

[Waterluvian]

Isn't that like saying that it turns out this car we sold can only do 150, not 200. But it's okay because most of you never drive above 80 anyways.

You're right. Most people who just surf the Netflix and download the YouTubes will not notice. But it's still a form of fraud, even to those who never max out CPU. I think fraud is a strong word knowing that this wasn't intentional. But they sold a lesser product than they advertised and need to make customers whole. Otherwise it pretty much is fraud.

[anonacct37]

I think people are underestimating how bad webapps are. I do... a lot of computing and by far the most CPU intensive applications on my computer are webviews. Either Gmail in chrome or slack. I'm actually going to be upgrading my laptop soon because slack+3 organizations crushes my laptop.

Do you think browser vendors have been pushing JIT research forward, investing in webasm, and building things like servo because websites are so fast and light on CPU?