Re: HEADS-UP: Stack Smash Protection enabled by default for amd64 and i386

[James Chacon <jmc%ksu.edu@localhost>]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:59:36PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > After that, reinstallation with a USE_SSP=yes world and run of
> >         build.sh -m amd64 -j4 -V USE_SSP=yes release
> >
> > The first took 5803 seconds, the second took 5817 seconds.
>
> Interesting. It seems to make  much less of a difference on your  
> setup.
> That might be related to the fact that I used a virtual machine
> for testing.

Testing performance based things in a virtual machine is usually a bad  
idea. Too many outside variables generally.

James