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Re:RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1 by loeg on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:44PM (#23912659)
Right. You've described the performance impact: a ton of relocations hurts startup time, and the modified memory reduces sharing, costing additional memory. If startup time does not matter and memory is free, sure, it has no costs.
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Re:RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1 by barrkel on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @09:43PM (#23913105)
Yeah; a linear scan over what, possibly as many as a couple of megabytes. I bet that takes a while.

(Seriously? :-)

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