Your (Intel) #CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday

Source: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2021/06/17/rip-zero-opt.html

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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