Yeah, I’m not sure too many mitigations have been backported.

But the attack surface might also be smaller due to simpler pipelines…

Regardless, I’m too much of a perf junkie to give up my modern hardware.

It’s possible with an old enough CPU and a libre BIOS.

That doesn’t mean I’d do it but it’s possible.

I agree, I was just giving another example to raise awareness about that feature of rust.

Cargo also has a --git option but I suppose it’s not default behavior