IMHO this argument is on the wrong side of the fence. The advantages to auditing and long-term quality to a distro having guaranteed-usable backtraces are just

IMHO this argument is on the wrong side of the fence. The advantages to auditing and long-term quality to a distro having guaranteed-usable backtraces are just too much to pass up. Absolutely Fedora needs to disallow -fomit-frame-pointer. I just don't see a 2-3% performance argument as being responsive there. Applications with performance tuning requirements at that scale are going to be more than able to, y'know, recompile their junk. Frankly most runtimes these days prefer to deploy static binaries anyway. The default distro isn't the place to be dithering over 2%. But what this is really measuring isn't the cost of a "frame pointer". It's the cost of a ABI-compliant function call. And there's technology available that reduces the number of these damn near zero (with no impact to backtrace generation or debuggability), which would obviate all the argumentation over -f-o-f-p. Get LTO working, everyone: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LTOByDefault https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LTOByDefault