The fix for the #Intel CPU vulnerabilities has a #brutal effect on compile times.
Compiling the #syslog_ng package on #Fedora changed drastically: from 4 minutes to 21!
As far as I can see compiling #Java is affected most.
#Meltdown #Spectre
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Replying to @PCzanik
Interesting. A friend timed linux kernel compilation with PTI enabled and the difference was less than 10 seconds.
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For reasonable source trees the difference will be very small. If something's slow it's probably either ridiculous amounts of junk in autoconf scripts, or thousands of include files...
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