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Faaak on May 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance ...

So what ? If your machine is exclusively used to build code, or to render 3D animations, then this patch is not mandatory.

JustFinishedBSG on May 17, 2019 [–]

Because javascript.

rowanG077 on May 17, 2019 | [–]

He explicitly says if you don't share hardware with code you don't trust it's fine to disable it. Javascript is not code one trusts...

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