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The Desktop CPU Security Mitigation Impact On Ubuntu 20.04

LevelDB, the on-disk key-value store by Google and used by Google Chrome and other programs, continues to show big impact for the older CPUs.

The Darktable RAW photography software performance at least has leveled out on the CPUs with hardware mitigations.

Ditto for GIMP.