Re: [ANNOUNCE] qemu-kvm-0.13.0-rc1

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* Avi Kivity (avi@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>  On 09/09/2010 04:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>It's perfectly reasonable to want to avoid building the tcg code
> >>if you aren't going to use it.
> >
> >Why?  It doesn't do any harm to have extra code.
> 
> It's half a megabyte of code.

And half a day to compile ;)

> Also, it's better not to have code
> snippets that call mprotect(PROT_EXEC) in your executable.

I agree, is there any reason not to enable compiling less into the binary?
There are folks interested in eliminating as much as possible to reduce
the attack surface and auditing requirements, for example.

thanks,
-chris
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