Revisiting the effects of the Spectre and Meltdown patches using the top-down microarchitectural method and purchasing power parity theory

Software patches are made available to fix security vulnerabilities, enhance performance, and usability. Previous works focused on measuring the performance effect of patches on benchmark runtimes. In this study, we used the Top-Down microarchitecture analysis method to understand how pipeline bottl...

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Main Authors: Yectli A. Huerta, David J. Lilja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. 2021-10-01
Series:BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772485921000119