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Wow, really?Why can't they just start updating/enabling this accross the board when it is done? Why wait until 19H1?
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Earlier this year two major vulnerabilities were discovered which affected the core processes of the computer. Named as Spectre and Meltdown, these “speculative execution” vulnerabilities meant hackers could steal data by simply visiting a website.
Though there were no known incidents of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, the processor microcode patches could have up to a 30% impact on the performance of PCs that have been patched.
Various tech companies have been working on mitigation for this, and in Microsoft’s latest move, they are working to implement Retpoline in the next major version of Windows 10, 19H1 due early next year...
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Wow, really?Why can't they just start updating/enabling this accross the board when it is done? Why wait until 19H1?
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I have just checked, using skippy 19H1 compared to 1809 on an old i7-2600 there is a 33% improvement in 4K Random read performance (writes only slightly improved) using an 960 EVO 250GB SATA3 SSD.
Last edited by MUser; 19 Oct 2018 at 14:32.