Subject: Re: FreSSH and bounds checking
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/08/2002 13:41:05
> Steven M. Bellovin writes:
>
>> Hoare had a line on that, too, from around 1983 -- he likened such
>> behavior to sailors practicing ashore with life jackets, but leaving
>> them home when they went to sea.
>
>
> Understood. With all the comments about ssh already being slow I
> figured anything that added another 2x slowdown (and bloat) to the
> code would raise a few eyebrows.
Bounds checking overhead (well at least for reasonable languages and
good compilers :-) is less than 2x. I'm scraping the bottom of my
memory bank but I believe it is more like 10%.
enjoy,
Andrew