* https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/reading-pr...
* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl...
* https://meltdownattack.com/
* https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
* https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r...
TL;DR is that mitigation for Spectre on an OS level is not very expensive in terms of performance while Meltdown mitigation, which affects only Intel, will have a performance penalty between 5% and 30%
* https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/reading-pr...
* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_fl...
* https://meltdownattack.com/
* https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
* https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r...
TL;DR is that mitigation for Spectre on an OS level is not very expensive in terms of performance while Meltdown mitigation, which affects only Intel, will have a performance penalty between 5% and 30%