On 05/17/2016 07:00 AM, arch-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > In the past there has been various (performance) reasons with gcc5 that > hold up stepping further, so the decision was to not backport gcc6 > patches and wait for gcc6 so arrive. Fortunately gcc6 arrived so the > topic landed again on the tables for discussion. The current state is > that we wanted to have some benchmarking with current (non-PIE) and PIE > enabled binaries to compare them and make sure it eliminated all > previous concerns. > > If you want to to really help pushing this topic in an official way then > the most useful and best step you could do is helping out to do those > benchmarks. > > cheers, > Levente ohh, ok. that makes sense. I would be glad to benchmark as many packages as needed, assuming someone doesn't mind telling me how it needs to be done. thanks, ITwrx
