turing off selinux makes gnome 60% faster?

[dragoran]

dragoran wrote:

> according to this review:
> http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/06/03/08/2321254.shtml?tid=107
> "FC5 runs on a 2.6.15 kernel and uses a branded version of GNOME 2.14 
> as its default desktop. Although GNOME 2.14 is roughly twice as fast 
> as earlier versions when installed in other distributions, little of 
> this acceleration is visible in FC5. A large part of this relative 
> slowness is due to the default enabling of SELinux -- turn it off, and 
> GNOME is as much as 60% faster."
>
> turing off selinux makes gnome 60% faster...
> can this be true?
> how does selinux affects gnome perfomance?
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nm...
old review used a debug enabled kernel