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CPU performance isn't important for 'typical home and business' tasks. They're estimating 6% slowdown based on SYSmark 2014. I quickly skimmed the whitepaper a
by ianhowson 9y ago
CPU performance isn't important for 'typical home and business' tasks.
They're estimating 6% slowdown based on SYSmark 2014. I quickly skimmed the whitepaper and think this is probably reasonable; there's a mix of CPU-bound and I/O-bound tasks, and the CPU-bound tasks won't be impacted. Most home users are still on spinning disks, so that's your bottleneck for I/O, not the additional syscall overhead.
A 6% slowdown is imperceptible to a human. For tasks that don't need a lot of CPU power (like office applications and web browsing) even a 30% slowdown is not that big a deal.