Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Speculative Store Bypass Disable For Spectre V4 On Intel Core i7

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 3 July 2018 at 09:45 AM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 6 Comments.

Unlike with the other Spectre and Meltdown mitigation, the I/O performance wasn't really affected with SSBD. Only the CompileBench workload in particular appeared to take a small performance hit with SSBD on.

The Golang performance was slightly lower with SSBD being unconditionally enabled.

The LuaJIT performance also took a small performance hit.

Though outside of managed code environments, having SSBD enabled fortunately didn't impair the performance in any meaningful manner.


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