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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:11:54 -0400 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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| > Well then leave it turned off, but put a note about the availability |
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| > of the feature in the comments above FEATURES= in make.conf. |
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| With FEATURES="noautossp" the user would be free to disable it on |
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| their own accord but being a responsible distribution to the users and |
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| the computing world we would/should not. |
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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 your |
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app happens to be badly coded in a particular way... The option's there |
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for anyone that wants it, but turning it on by default probably isn't |
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wise... |
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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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