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Comment by ams6110

8 years ago

Performance is not a top priority for OpenBSD.

If you read https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html, the word "performance" does not appear.

I think this may be missing the point of the grandparent comment; rather than interpreting it as an accusation of OpenBSD sabotaging its users' performance, I think we're all just curious at the relative importance of hyperthreading for real-world workloads, on any OS, in grim anticipation of the potential worst-case scenario where hyperthreading's security woes continue to worsen and worsen.