clang's been better than MSVC for a while, IMO, unless you really need an IDE to drive for you. (And clang has great tools for that, it's just that Xcode feels like crap. I haven't found an excuse to try Rider.)
Considered purely as a C++ compiler and not taking any other part of the toolchain into account, yeah, I'd agree clang is now a slightly better compiler than MSVC. But I do think Microsoft's whole ecosystem of tools still has an edge over anyone else.
To get back to the actual topic of the thread (if anyone remembers it)...
When I first read the details of the vulnerabilities, what struck me was how obvious it all seemed in hindsight. If you know the basic principles of how modern CPUs work - enough to be familiar with terms like "speculative execution", "branch prediction", "page fault", "ring 0 vs ring 3", and the like - your first thought was probably the same as mine: "Holy crap, how did anyone not spot this years ago?"
Then again, of course, it's quite likely that someone in the NSA, GCHQ, Russia, China, and/or North Korea did spot this years ago...
And the Windows fix makes some computers with older AMD chipsets unbootable:
Microsoft Support: Windows operating system security update block for some AMD based devices
I wonder if theres a Plex Transcoding server hit?? Seems like my Plex Server isnt quite up to snuff anymore.
I wonder if theres a Plex Transcoding server hit?? Seems like my Plex Server isnt quite up to snuff anymore.
I hadn't done an update on my Plex server yet. I did some before-and-after load tests with transcoding a single 1080 stream and didn't see a noticeable difference. user% bounced between 20% and 30%, and system% was under 1% before and after.
yeah I was waiting for that shoe to drop...
So afaik, for total protection you need to update windows and update your graphics drivers which I have done already. Web browsers will be updated as time goes on. I was also advised to update the intel management engine, can that be done through windows?
The last thing that needs to be done is a BIOS update. However I just read that Asus will only patch the BIOS for motherboards with socket 1151 and forward. In other words if you have a Haswell or Broadwell CPU or older you are sh*t out of luck.
My opinion of ASUS has decreased dramatically.
Microsoft Disables Spectre Mitigations Due to Instability
Haven't got the reversion update yet on win7, probably will get it this tuesday. No system instability that I've noticed except for one nvklddm GPU crash, but that one has so many different causes it's hard to say why it happened or if it's related at all.
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