Integration of ProPolice in FreeBSD

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:15:55PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:47:38PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > 
> > Certainly.  I would like to hear opinion from other committers if SSP
> > should be enabled by default.
> 
> I'm not a committer, but I'll ask a question anyway.
> 
> Can you quantify the performance impact, in particular for
> numerically intensive codes with heavy use of libm?

I don't run such application, so I can't answer.  Sorry.  If you are
willing to give a try, I would be pleased to help you to run your tests,
or even run them on my side.

BTW for the sake of my curiosity, is there a technical reason for
ProPolice to be heavier for libm?

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
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