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by sanxiyn 3083 days ago
By design, with retpoline indirect branches won't be able to take advantage of branch prediction. This is nontrivial, but can't be helped. Performance impact should be negligible otherwise.
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Considering that every single function call into a dynamically loaded library will be affected, that negligible "otherwise" won't be so negligible in the real world.