Software obfuscation is widely used as a protection mechanism against reverse engineering attacks, slowing down the activity of crackers and hiding the actual logic of the program code. This protection is generally used in commercial products with the most sales during the early days after the release. However, there are some disadvantages to using this security technique, and the most serious one is indeed a drop in performance. Effects of protections on performance can be challenging to predict a priori and can slow down the work of developers, who waste their time searching the optimal combination of obfuscation techniques for their programs.