How Much Does Meltdown/Spectre Patching Slow Down a Big Rails App?

• 26/01/2018
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You've likely heard about the Meltdown and Spectre bugs that affect nearly all modern CPUs. You've probably heard that the patch to fix them costs some performance. You'll hear between a 5% and 20% penalty or more, depending who you ask and about what benchmark.

• Meltdown/Spectre
• Patching
• Rails
• Appfolio
• Engineering

Nezir Zahirovic

Contractor Ruby On Rails (8+ years) / MCPD .Net / C# / Asp.Net / CSS / SQL / (11 years)

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