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Replying to myself: most of the info can be found here

* 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%



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