alt Hacker NewsIt's not necessarily that OpenBSD can't implement the basics, it's that they don't want to. A lot of the high-performance features introduce potential security vulnerabilities. Their main focus is security and correctness. Not speed.
It's not necessarily that OpenBSD can't implement the basics, it's that they don't want to. A lot of the high-performance features introduce potential security vulnerabilities. Their main focus is security and correctness. Not speed.
> A lot of the high-performance features introduce potential security vulnerabilities.
I am particularly-reminded of speculative execution optimizations allowing attacks like Spectre and Meltdown in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulner...