Compilation on Dell XPS 15 9560 vs. Dell XPS 15 7590 (with mitigations on/off) Test of my old and new laptops with spectre and meltdown mitigations on and off. XPS 15 7590 mitigations on: Processor: Intel Core i9-9980HK @ 5.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 0T8KGX (1.5.0 BIOS), Memory: 32GB, Disk: SSDPEMKF010T8 NVMe INTEL 1024GB, Graphics: i915drmfb, Audio: Realtek ALC3266 OS: Clear Linux OS 29390, Kernel: 5.5.8-arch1-1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 20190512 gcc-9-branch@271104 + Clang 8.0.0 + LLVM 8.0.0, File-System: overlayfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160, System Layer: Docker XPS 15 9560 mitigations on: Processor: Intel Core i5-7300HQ @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0YV12N (1.18.0 BIOS), Memory: 32GB, Disk: PC300 NVMe SK hynix 256GB, Graphics: i915drmfb, Audio: Realtek ALC3266 OS: Clear Linux OS 29390, Kernel: 5.5.8-arch1-1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 9.1.1 20190512 gcc-9-branch@271104 + Clang 8.0.0 + LLVM 8.0.0, File-System: overlayfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160, System Layer: Docker Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.41 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 21.85 |======================= XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 40.48 |=========================================== Timed FFmpeg Compilation 4.2.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 75.64 |=================== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 171.00 |========================================== Timed GCC Compilation 8.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 722.95 |==================== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 1503.64 |========================================= Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation 9.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 107.02 |===================== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 213.35 |========================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 38.51 |================== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 91.56 |=========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 144.77 |============= XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 478.91 |========================================== Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 576.83 |=========== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 2172.51 |========================================= Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 46.80 |================ XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 125.42 |========================================== Timed PHP Compilation 7.4.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 60.59 |=================== XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 133.03 |========================================== Build2 0.12 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better XPS 15 7590 mitigations on . 135.86 |================= XPS 15 9560 mitigations on . 337.36 |==========================================