Re: F38 proposal: Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags (System-Wide Change proposal)

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> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:06 AM Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> 
> My full comment in that blog post is:
> 
> "We need a proper study of performance and code size to understand the
> magnitude of the impact created by _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 additional
> runtime code generation. However the performance and code size
> overhead may well be worth it due to the magnitude of improvement in
> security coverage."
> 
> To elaborate, I think the performance and code size study is an
> interesting academic concern, but the magnitude of improvement
> justifies whatever little performance impact this may introduce and it
> should not be a blocker for the improvement.

It's interesting how now it's just an academic concern. Please hold yourself to at least the standards set for https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2817 in terms of benchmarking and persuading everyone that performance degradation across entire ecosystem is not a concern. 

> 
> 
> Sure, I could add that as a comment in the proposal.

We need benchmarks, not a comment. Thank you.

> 
> Thanks,
> Sid
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