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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:38:02 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> |
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| On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:27 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Personally, I would be *very* wary about giving our x86 users a 5% |
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| > performance hit just to enable a hack which might protect you if |
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| > your app happens to be badly coded in a particular way... The |
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| > option's there for anyone that wants it, but turning it on by |
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| > default probably isn't wise... |
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| personal opinions aside, the fact that it's a FEATURE means that users |
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| can easily disable it ... after all, everyone knows Gentoo is about |
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| performance ... |
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Or, as a FEATURE, it can be easily enabled. Just like it can be as a |
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CFLAG. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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