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Message-ID: <5214F33A.3020509@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:04:58 +0200
From: "Stephen Röttger" <stephen.roettger@...il.com>
To: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.cz>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: PoC: Function Pointer Protection in C Programs


> What is performance impact for program that just qsorts big array? It
> looks like worst case scenario for me.

I just put together a quick test program that sorts an array of 10^6
integers and stopped the execution time using "time". The results are as
follows (+- 0,01s):

protection disabled, -O0:
./sort_nofpp_0  0,19s user 0,02s system 98% cpu 0,215 total

protection enabled, -O0
./sort_fpp_0  0,54s user 0,01s system 99% cpu 0,549 total

protection disabled, -O3
./sort_nofpp_3  0,15s user 0,01s system 98% cpu 0,157 total

protection enabled, -O3
./sort_fpp_3  0,51s user 0,00s system 99% cpu 0,511 total

So this makes quite a difference:
0,19s -> 0,54s
0,15s -> 0,51s

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