[otherme123]

You might need a box to be as safe as possible, but performance is secondary. Following your car example, some people prefer a safer car over a faster one.

If you chose Open BSD you make that explicit choice. Their promise is to avoid technologies unless they are rock solid, even at the cost of performance or convenience (like the forking to LibreSSL).

[hulitu]

> While working on our fixes, I ran the test programs for quite a while and I never saw anything resembling a 'text' string. However when I ran a browser I saw streams of what was probably graphics-related fragments flowing past. The base system clearly uses AVX very rarely by itself.

So it seems that your statement is only true for the base system.

Those days the web browser is the main path for RCEs on a user's desktop. For example firefox on a linux system uses around 25 external libraries, if not more.