That 8.6 figure comes from the paper linked below [0]. It’s an average. For many benchmarks, the difference is less than one percent, for others it’s 20 or more

That 8.6 figure comes from the paper linked below [0]. It’s an average. For many benchmarks, the difference is less than one percent, for others it’s 20 or more. In the freebsd article, they see around 1%. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/09/checkedc-secdev2018-preprint.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...