> > Do I really need this patch ? > > Unless you want sites to be able to steal your password(s) with nothing more than a > simple drive-by Javascript attack, yes, you really do. It will not affect the speed > of anything relevant to what you do, Qun Mang is being an alarmist dipshit.
Says you. I was just following the news. Maybe not everything is affected by the patch, but many things are. Though games on Linux didn't seem to be affected, the article pointed out that DirectX had a very good chance of performance drops. Of course most of us can change engines on MAME but there are some out there who can't. Also, compiling was one thing very much affected and many here like to compile MAME themselves.