Intel have just owned up to a significant security problem in most of their chips. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/0 ... sign_flaw/ For those of you on Windows (like me), or indeed Linux, we'll be getting patches which we really should install. There is apparently a performance hit of 5 to 30% from installing the patch which fixes the problem, depending on the processor you have and the task it's running. I really hope it doesn't slow down Lightroom!
I take your point gents, but if you are on Windows 10, then aren't you going to get the fix applied whether you like it or not? At least for consumer machines. Those who have Windows 10 pro may be able to do something via a local group policy.
PaulEvans wrote:I take your point gents, but if you are on Windows 10, then aren't you going to get the fix applied whether you like it or not? At least for consumer machines. Those who have Windows 10 pro may be able to do something via a local group policy.
Cheers
Paul
You can still disable them on home editions according to this
I wouldn't worry yet about PC slow downs, there's many more things that can hit your computer's performance (overheating is the most common [dust filled heatsinks that most people are never aware of or hardened thermal paste/pads], with malware and PuPs a close second): "Most modern CPUs don’t appear to be generating any performance dips on the Windows side, but there’s continued speculation about Linux-based PCs and virtual machines used for cloud computing. After Intel’s response yesterday, some Linux admins are reporting performance impacts. "
One of today's misuse of a word is using "impact" instead of "affect"; I know they have the same dictionary meaning but an affect has a smaller influence than impact.
walkeja wrote:Shouldn't that be ""affect" on Lightroom"?
Off Topic!
BTW: Shouldn't you use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation within a quotation? (That's a rhetorical question.)
walkeja wrote:Shouldn't that be ""affect" on Lightroom"?
One of today's misuse of a word is using "impact" instead of "affect"; I know they have the same dictionary meaning but an affect has a smaller influence than impact.