Performance after Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches

AmiBroker
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Hi to all,

Does anybody check change in Amibroker performance after installation Windows Meltdown and Spectre patches?

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I've checked it on laptop running Windows 10 and it does not seem to impact AmiBroker performance. See also: Amibroker Dream Machine specs requested!

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Tomash, thank you!

Best regards
Alexander Beloglazov

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Intel has a post on their blog: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-security-issue-update-initial-performance-data-results-client-systems/ that details performance impact on various CPUs and configurations. Interesting point that seems overlooked is that configurations with SSD suffer about 5% while configs with traditional HDD do not suffer at all or suffer less. That might suggest that the only real-world impact is coming from disk I/O, and that makes sense since patch slows down kernel access (i..e. for example kernel device drivers).

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Hmmm...

As it is usually better to have an enterprise raid (on chip) card like a LSI (now broadcom) megaraid card, than using monther board sata connection and/or software raid, even when connecting single non-raid volumes. I wonder if those are also affected?