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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday

Posted by meatrocket
Tags: microcode, cpu, intel, performance, semiconductors
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2021/06/17/rip-zero-opt.html

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Performance Matters
Published
Jun 17 2021
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743 words

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  1. meatrocket
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    Found this on r/programming and thought it was sorta interesting, albeit short.

    Found this on r/programming and thought it was sorta interesting, albeit short.

    Although I suspect the performance impact will be minuscule on average, this surprise still serves as a reminder that raw CPU performance can silently change due to microcode updates and most Linux distributions and modern Windows have these updates enabled by default.

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