Scratch what I said earlier. The increase in performance is absolutely noticeable if you have an old CPU.

Fuck Specter/Meltdown fixes. I don't believe for one second that these things were actually created for security reasons. Remember, Intel was still the dominant power in the CPU market when these vulnerabilities were made public, and at the same time, they've been failing to make significant performance advances for several generations. So why would people buy new CPUs, if they weren't much better?

I'm sure you're smart enough to understand where I'm getting at.