[dgrant]

How much of a difference will these make? Trying to decide if it's worth my time.

[irthomasthomas]

I did this on my i5 4300U laptop and whilst I didnt formally benchmark it, the boot time halved, and it feels a LOT faster to use. So much snappier.

[Kwantuum]

Considering it takes all of 15 seconds to setup (5 minutes including reading), it's really not a matter of if it's worth your time, but if it's worth the risk, since it disables mitigations for hardware vulnerabilities.

[PureParadigm]

I don't think there's an easy answer. It will very much depend on your hardware and what kind of software you run. I'd say the best way to tell is just to try it, measure performance, and compare results.

[softwarejosh]

first, do you use js?

[dvfjsdhgfv]

You make it sound as if JS was the only attack surface, whereas it's just the most common one.

[saagarjha]

I did not get that impression at all from that comment, FWIW.