neumann@csl.sri.com
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 13:43:34 PST
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16851132/meltdown-spectre-google-cpu-patch-performance-slowdown
Google just gave chipmakers some much needed good news. In a post on the
company's Online Security Blog, two Google engineers described a novel
chip-level patch that has been deployed across the company's entire
infrastructure, resulting in only minor declines in performance in most
cases. The company has also posted details of the new technique, called
Retpoline, in the hopes that other companies will be able to follow the same
technique. If the claims hold, it would mean Intel and others have avoided
the catastrophic slowdowns that many had predicted.