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 …

  • zosu@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

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

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      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.