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Apple & others say ‘little to no performance hit’ from security mitigations for CPU flaw

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/imac-pro-intake-exhaust.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>Concerns about the performance hit of mitigating the security flaw in Intel, AMD and ARM processors appear to have been dramatically overblown.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/02/intel-cpu-bug-fix-slowdown-for-macs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial report[/url] in The Register suggested ‘a ballpark figure of 5-30% slow-down,’ but Intel now says that the performance impact ‘should not be significant,’ with Apple and others agreeing that this is the case …</p>
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