01-07-2018, 02:52 PM
Meltdown Update: Serhiy has finished running benchmark testing for us and Meltdown. The good news is that SQLITE's move to MMIO in 2013 has prevented heavy impact to the game. On a Windows 7, i5-3570 CPU, with a 7200RPM hard drive, we're looking at about 0.5%-1.5% drop in performance when testing against a 200mb save game.
I expect this performance drop will be a little bit higher for those of you using SSDs and NVMEs. But it is still about half what I was expecting. Some parts of the game are up to 40% slower in this test. And the main area of concern was only 3.5-6% slower. The rest of the game had little impact. This is due to structural changes in Sqlite over the years!
Continued optimizations should negate any performance loss for Intel users. Everyone else will get some performance improvements in the area of concern.
I expect this performance drop will be a little bit higher for those of you using SSDs and NVMEs. But it is still about half what I was expecting. Some parts of the game are up to 40% slower in this test. And the main area of concern was only 3.5-6% slower. The rest of the game had little impact. This is due to structural changes in Sqlite over the years!
Continued optimizations should negate any performance loss for Intel users. Everyone else will get some performance improvements in the area of concern.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski