RFC: Is it OK to disassemble instructions twice ?

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Aug 19 11:28:00 GMT 2019


* Nick Clifton:

> Hi Florian,
>
>> Nick, doubling the diassembly cost is rather excessive.  It is quite
>> slow already, reducing its usefulness.
>
> Do we actually have complaints about the speed of disassembly ?

I occasionally feel annoyed when doing binary diffs of
supposedly-similar glibc builds.  Most of the time, there aren't
expected to be any differences.

Thanks,
Florian



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