Spectre Wreaks Havoc As iPhone 6 Performance Drops By 40% In Both Single And Multi-Core Benchmarks

wccftech.com ^ | Jan 13, 2018 | Ramish Zafar

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ah, speculative execution. Man’s ever needing desire to get more done in less time resulted in a similar design for microprocessors. With the third wave maturing and on the brink of fading, speed is all that matters today. Information is available in the blink of an eye and requires similar speeds for decision making. Hesitate, and you’re done for. However, in the microprocessor case, this didn’t serve us too well. Speculative Execution on microprocessor didn’t account for what would happen should past usage trends not materialize. When we talk about every day processes, such as reading the news, this matters less. But move to sensitive processes and the problem is obvious. Now, we’ve got more on the Spectre and Meltdown patches w.r.t the iPhone 6 and it isn’t good.

Apple iPhone 6 Benchmarked Before And After Spectre Patch; Shows Massive Drops In Single And Multi Core Performance

[headstamp 2]

Dr. NO!

[butlerweave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQukPXWkTI

[Blue Highway]

So much for Apple “iAnything” being invincable. Must be a sad day for you to realize you’ve been fooled by the hucksters @ Apple all of these years.

[gibsonguy]

I put it on my 6s and It seems fine.

[Blue Highway]

My previous comment was meant for Swordmaker not you Ernest.

[PAR35]

It shouldn’t matter to Apple users if the patch slows down their phone. Everyone knows you are supposed to buy a new IPhone every year.

IPhone 6 - that’s so 2014. You can’t sit at the cool kids’ table with one of those.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not enough room in Title Bar to add:

After patch applied!

[bitt]

mark

[mrsmith]

Long time since I did machine code... seems one line to clear the memory allocated would solve this.
Long time so maybe not that simple, maybe they want to sell new chips.

[JohnBrowdie]

huh? no youtube video?

[Chode]

question, if you run a virtual machine, are you basically immune to these types of attacks?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. The fact that there haven't been any infections stemming from the Spectre bug kinda bumps the whole thing into moot-ness. And of course, a phone that is a few years old, well, it's time to upgrade anyway. The iPhone X sales have been through the roof, as evidenced by the sales-based bonuses paid to Apple execs within the past month, and the big earnings jump by Apple's two primary suppliers in Asia -- y'know, the ones rumored to have been told to cut production for the X by 40 percent?

[wally_bert]

This could only been engineered by Osato Industries.

Dr. No was more into toppling and nuclear power.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I have a Galaxy Note 8 myself.

Just speculating,....maybe this is Google bring down Apple a bit?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Corporate Intrigue...plot by Google to slow down Apple?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #3.

[rollo tomasi]

User's pitfall of being in a closed system. Smart move by corporate though when their new stuff is not selling the projected units. Jana Partners and the California State Teachers Retirement System are already churning crap up that puts a damper on "freedom".

Apple should tell Jana Partners and the California State Teachers Retirement System to piss-off though. Investors will eagerly pick up their shares.

[Nifster]

That is not why Apple users buy Apple products

Nice try

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Is it possible that Apple just did a lousy job implementing their fix. We’ll see.