The Performance Cost To A Proposed Fedora 37 CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS Change

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 27 June 2022 at 09:30 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 45 Comments.

Thankfully in most of the workloads tested, the performance cost of -fno-omit-frame-pointer wasn't as severe as what was seen with the Botan crypto benchmark.

But there were sizable hits in various other real-world workloads too...

From digital audio workstation to the PJSIP communications library there were a variety of workloads seeing lower performance by keeping the frame pointer around.


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