raingloom <raingl...@riseup.net> writes: > People shouldn't have to take extra steps and burn extra CPU cycles > for security.
To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on this, but I wanted to give an alternative viewpoint: people shouldn't have to take extra steps and burn extra CPU cycles for performance. Everyone has different threat models and needs. A lot of computers have CPU speculative execution attack mitigation disabled because those types of attacks will never affect those computers, and it reduces the performance of the CPU a lot. I suggest we pick our default with care, and if possible with data about what most users would like. -- Katherine
