On 1/5/23 11:08, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
>> Of course, but the benefit is to fix performance bugs in applications
>> or maybe the desktop itself. [...]
> 
>>> Let's be firm in testing this empirically rather than aspirationally.
>> I really don't know how. Suggestions welcome.
> 
> I'd put the onus on the proponents of the Change, who made predictions
> like "I'm confident that over the course of the next year, we'll recover
> performance that was lost by FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and frame pointers" and
> "The optimizations enabled by profiling can be much larger than 3-10%."

As the one who made this statement: Profiling can result in very large
gains.  I cannot predict what the actual gains will be.

> There needs to be substance behind such predictions if they are going
> to be used as justification for slowing things down in the mean time.

I agree.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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