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hinkley on June 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance

What’s the current benchmark situation with pre-spectre and post-specter hardware now?

Is there vintage hardware that is now faster than contemporary hardware?

seanalexander on June 19, 2021 [–]

There are 2011 MacBook Pro laptops that run as fast or faster than the most recent gen of Intel MBPs.

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