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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:42:11 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:38:02 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:27 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > 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...
| 
| personal opinions aside, the fact that it's a FEATURE means that users
| can easily disable it ... after all, everyone knows Gentoo is about 
| performance ...

Or, as a FEATURE, it can be easily enabled. Just like it can be as a
CFLAG.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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