Applying targeted binary patches shouldn't take 40 seconds... unless that's also a fake "so it looks like it's working really hard" delay.
replyI might be thinking of a different project then...
replyI swore Intel had their own PLO tool, but I can only find https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/2996.
Found it. It was https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thin-Layout-Optimizer.
replyIt was open source, but has since been deprecated.