On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:11:54 -0400 Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > Well then leave it turned off, but put a note about the availability
| > of the feature in the comments above FEATURES= in make.conf.
| 
| With FEATURES="noautossp" the user would be free to disable it on
| their own accord but being a responsible distribution to the users and
| the computing world we would/should not.

Personally, I would be *very* wary about giving our x86 users a 5%
performance hit just to enable a hack which might protect you if your
app happens to be badly coded in a particular way... The option's there
for anyone that wants it, but turning it on by default probably isn't
wise...

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