Help offered with xwax package

[Daniel James]

Hi James,

> bindnow has no runtime performance impact (a slight increase in startup
> time).

Thanks for the tip! I've enabled this in
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/xwax.git/commit/?id=48ef7795f583e619765180452bb7d3b6976e96a6

> pie has minimal performance impact on arches which support pc-relative
> addressing (eg x86_64), but yes it does impact performance on old gcc
> versions with i386.
> 
> IMO you should enable them unless the performance reduction is
> noticeable.

That's a tough call as I don't have any working i386 systems here. Would
it be appropriate to open a bug ticket for this issue and address it in
a later update, after benchmarking?

I can also ask the upstream developer if the performance impact might be
a concern.

> Being a desktop application doesn't mean there are no
> security concerns. A security bug can still compromise files owned by
> the user running the application.

Sure, but I think this is highly unlikely as it's a rather specialist
application and doesn't even need network access. On the other hand, a
performance degradation could make the program unusable.

Cheers!

Daniel