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by Seirdy 1691 days ago
There are...a lot of good reasons to keep the mitigations enabled. All nontrivial software has bugs, and hardening measures can keep some of the worst ones in check. Frankly, the Linux desktop needs more of this, not less.

That being said, one writeup explained how disabling several mitigations improved http server perf by several factors: https://talawah.io/blog/extreme-http-performance-tuning-one-...