linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

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Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:51:20 +0100
From:	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@...lingofgreen.ru>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	David Wagner <daw@...berkeley.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

> Randomisation has nothing to do with C. In fact from a C perspective the
> compiler and linker do a lot of work to deal with ELF and loading code at
> arbitary addresses for dynamic linking and the like, not the user and
> not as language constructs. Perhaps the Lisp universe should wake up and
> meet the 1980s 8)

Uhm, C++ folks and others have run into loader performance issues due
to the way DSOs are handled.  The problem is more severe in the lisp
context because a typical image contains hundreds of thousands of
small objects on startup.
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