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Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing ...

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[–] wisniewskit@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, given how many high-profile data breaches there have been since, and the fact that CPU performance was significantly affected, and how much Intel has struggled to remain competitive, I'm not sure we were all that far off from any exaggerations.

[–] zosu@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in linux you can switch kernel mitigations on and off and it's barely noticable, even when gaming.

[–] wisniewskit@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but that's after years of researching and tweaking the mitigation, and doesn't cover other OSes. I certainly agree that some folks made it sound a lot more dire than it ever was, though.