A short C program was used to microbenchmark the function call overhead imposed by StackGhost. It was compiled with gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease).
The Spec95 integer suite was run to generate the macro benchmarks. The benchmark suite was built with gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease).
All the benchmarks were run on a 70Mhz SparcStation 4, 32MB of ram, PROM Rev 2.20, and no L2 cache. The machine was operating in multi-user mode under fairly constant conditions for each iteration of the benchmarks.