[arch-dev-public] test-sec-flags announcement
Hi all, There has been a group of people doing some analysis on the performance impact of various security flags we can use in our packaging. They are wanting to gather performance benchmarks from a bunch of people so we can have an informed discussion about their inclusion. See below. I'll wait and see how many responses they get from this post before I post this as a news item too. Cheers, Allan --ANNOUNCEMENT-- I am thrilled to announce that test-sec-flags has been completed and is ready for download and use. What is test-sec-flags? Inspired by discussions on arch-general, test-sec-flags was created to test the performance impact of various security-oriented compilation and linking flags. The goal is to determine if these flags can be the new default for all Arch Linux packages. Preliminary results suggest that the performance impact is almost nonexistent, but I would like to collect and compare more results before moving forwards. How do I use it? See the README for installation and usage instructions.The results subdirectory contains instructions on how to pull out the relevant statistics from the result files. Where do I obtain it? https://github.com/pid1/test-sec-flags My sincerest thanks to anthraxx, strcat, sangy, and rgacogne for their invaluable assistance. Patches welcome. Cheers, pid1
On 25 May 2016 at 03:34, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
There has been a group of people doing some analysis on the performance impact of various security flags we can use in our packaging. They are wanting to gather performance benchmarks from a bunch of people so we can have an informed discussion about their inclusion. See below.
I'm missing one important piece of information, and that is what to do with the results. There are some results on the github wiki, but there's no obvious point where to submit the results. Lukas
On 27/05/16 07:19, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
On 25 May 2016 at 03:34, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
There has been a group of people doing some analysis on the performance impact of various security flags we can use in our packaging. They are wanting to gather performance benchmarks from a bunch of people so we can have an informed discussion about their inclusion. See below.
I'm missing one important piece of information, and that is what to do with the results. There are some results on the github wiki, but there's no obvious point where to submit the results.
From the README:
"Please add your results to the wiki as well, preferably maintaining the same format as the results already there."
I'm missing one important piece of information, and that is what to do with the results. There are some results on the github wiki, but there's no obvious point where to submit the results.
From the README:
"Please add your results to the wiki as well, preferably maintaining the same format as the results already there."
I completely missed that. pid1 already replied me off the list about that. However, I'm convinced that the announcement should be updated to to include this information, too. It's too easy to miss. Lukas
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Allan McRae
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Lukas Jirkovsky