> Also, 10% is actually a pretty modest price to pay for increased software robustness and modularity. We're paying more than that for speculative execution vul

> Also, 10% is actually a pretty modest price to pay for increased software robustness and modularity. We're paying more than that for speculative execution vulnerability anyway. it's a completely crazy price to pay in a field where people routinely spend thousands of $$$ for <5% improvement > Do you run your fancy low-level audio processing pipeline with "mitigations=off" in /proc/cmdline? obviously yes! along with power saving CPU C-states or anything throttling-related disabled, specific real-time IRQ and threading configuration (e.g. making sure that the sound card interrupts aren't going to happen on a core handling network interrupts) and two dozen other optimizations (which do make a difference, I regularly set-up new machines from scratch for shows, art installations, etc. and always do this setup step-by-step to see if things are finally "good enough" and they always make a difference, in really a make-or-break sense).