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		gok on June 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance If your code is bottlenecked by syscall overhead, your performance was already murdered. Spectre mitigations are just stabbing the corpse.

saagarjha on June 19, 2021 [–]

In this case the “murdered” software perfectly describes most web servers.

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