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[โ€“] smeg@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not really sure of the significance here. Can it be explained by changes in firmware or kernel features?

[โ€“] TechnoCat@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

Could be security mitigations. They do mention mitigations on the last page to say there are new mitigations applied, but did not test the performance characteristics of them.

For my older CPU the impact mitigations have on performance are tremendous; ~20% if I recall from heartbleed and spectre. I have them disabled because it was making my computer a pain to use.