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Ha! This is actually pretty darn clever! I wonder what the final binary sizes are in comparison to normal GCC compilation, as well as execution speed. I can't

• kbenson 8y ago
  From the example images of original and obfuscated assembly, there's seems to be about a sixfold increase in the number of instructions (for that example, at least), so I imagine you'll see a similar binary size increase.
• acheron 8y ago
  To be clear, I (the HN submitter) have nothing to do with this, I just found it and thought it was great.
• Legogris 8y ago
  Considering that the floating point library is big enough to be disabled by default tells me you might run out of disk space compiling a single application. That being said, if this can increase difficulty of sidechannel attacks and branch prediction, maybe it'd actually make sense for very isolated parts of some services.
  • odorousrex 8y ago
    >That being said, if this can increase difficulty of sidechannel attacks and branch prediction, maybe it'd actually make sense for very isolated parts of some services. I agree, I can see how it certain special circumstances/services this could be very useful. However, I still expect someone to compile Quake with it by the end of the year.
    • simcop2387 8y ago
      They've apparently done DOOM already, and it's hours per frame. I don't want to think what Quake would be like.