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Benchmarking Clear Linux With KPTI + Retpoline Support

Most CPU benchmarks fortunately show no change in performance...

The boot time as reported by systemd did slow down as a result of these new patches, but at least Clear Linux remains one of the fastest booting operating systems around.

Fortunately, machine learning workloads in our tests didn't see much of an impact.