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 There will be more control over enabled features in the future along with
 control over fairly arbitrarily chosen values like the size of empty slab
-caches (making them smaller improves security), the maximum size of guard
-regions for large allocations and the proportion of slabs to guard slabs.
+caches (making them smaller improves security and reduces memory usage while
+larger caches can substantially improves performance).
 
 # Basic design