Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 12 March 2026 at 11:50 AM EDT. Page 6 of 8. 16 Comments.
RawTherapee is still one of the applications showing some difference out of mitigations=off on newer Intel CPU cores.
Only with the older cores was there any mitigations=off benefit to the code compilation speed.
Running in mitigations=off also provided no CPU power savings benefit on the newer cores.