I feel like I?m not very good at choosing the best time to post content. After completing a huge round of benchmarking on six processors, news hit the web of a massive security hole found in many processors, and at the current time, it seems Intel's the most affected party.

Currently, it's expected that a security patch will reduce the performance in some workloads, though how much degradation will occur is yet to be seen. It originally felt like performance could be severely impacted, but initial tests conducted by other outlets around the world haven't really given much reason for concern (although it does seem like it's largely I/O-intensive workloads that will be affected).

If it's discovered that this patch notably decreases performance (as in, it impacts the benchmarks), I'll revisit testing. At this point, I don't expect the results in this review to greatly change, though if you want to remain cautious, you?d get no sneer from me.