Re: Is any of this relly going to matter?
Until Intel fixes their CPU cockup so we don't have to patch the current ones back to 2010 levels of computing power all of this is just laughable.
I happen to use Cygwin as I am tired of programs occasionally segfaulting in buntu/Windows 10, e.g. wget. Problem is, my build takes 2.5 times longer with the Spetre and Meltdown patches, I have no noticeable difference with ubuntu/Windows 10 (when it completes without segfaulting) as compared to Cygwin, so the claim "native speeds" for the Linux subsystem turned out to be native speeds on a raspberry pi 1 ... on an i5. So for me, more like 2005 levels of computing power ... on Linux, the time Cygwin finishes, Linux has built it 8 times in a row already.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
