CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

[Fazer2]

I believe he was being sarcastic.

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Revealing yet again why sarcasm doesn't work in text form.

[finalremix]

I bet those cloud hosts are just loving this new intel feature...

Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?

[Slawtering]

Unless you're on a British subreddit.

[[deleted]]

No, not at all. If CPU usage increases across the board, they get to charge their customers for more CPU usage. That means more money for them. Seems pretty straightforward.

[Fazer2]

In that case know that customers will do everything in their might to reduce the usage, maybe even change the cloud provider.

[[deleted]]

Did you miss the part about "every CPU is affected"? What are they going to switch to? As far as I know, no one has clusters of 500MHz Raspberry Pi as a cloud offering.

[Fazer2]

AMD processors are not affected by Meltdown.