On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:03:37 -0700
Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oh really, "it has been stated".  By who?  Overall, I doubt that all
> of our security technologies add more than about 2% of a performance
> hit.  Even a 'make build' on most architectures did not add that.  I
> think you need to go back and read my slides again.  Spreading lies
> about 5-10% performance hits is just not kind to our efforts.

I've reread the slides again. I stand corrected when it comes to w^x &
propolice, but I'm still not in the clear when it comes to randomized
malloc & mmap. The slides from bsdcan 2004 state: "still failry
expensive", the slides from opencon 2005 no longer mention anything
about performance.

// nick

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