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And in exchange for that performance we got one of the most insane /class/ of unfixable CPU bugs ever imagined.

What do Spectre and Meltdown have to do with “everything as a file” system architecture?

The implication was that everything as a file _had_ to be abandoned to make way for performance "improvements." Which ended up just being a new class of CPU bugs. So.. was the trade worth it?

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