Apple & others say ‘little to no performance hit’ from security mitigations for CPU flaw<div class="feat-image">
</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>
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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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Apple & others say ‘little to no performance hit’ from security mitigations for CPU flaw