Windows 10 Control Flow Guard Causes Chromium Performance Issues
Control Flow Guard is a feature of Windows Defender that was introduced with Windows 8.1 and extended to Windows 10. Importantly, it is not available for Windows 7, hence the performance gap in Chromium. Vivaldi run Chromium unit tests on Windows 7 and found they were running faster than on the much newer Windows 10. After being informed of the problem, Google run its own internal tests. Bruce Dawson, a Google engineer, found that Control Flow Guard is the problem....