Here are results of a simple run (average of three results, bigger is better) of tools from unixbench suite with WITNESS+INVARIANTS enabled and disabled:

.

aritoh

float

context1

syscall

WITNESS+INVARIANTS

76467098

7477383

66894

460400

Plain

78024481

7549189

265514

1308646

This benchmark was performed on i386 Athlon64 1.6 GHz machine, on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. There's no statistical analysis, but there's clearly an order-of-magnitude impact on some workloads.

WITNESS and INVARIANTS are debug options that should not be enabled on production systems.


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WitnessPerformance (last edited 2022-10-02T05:22:17+0000 by KubilayKocak)