Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:59:28 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Isapnp warning
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Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:17:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and
> > produces a kernel which is 200k larger.
> 
> Do we know why this is the case?  I assume the fix is far from
> trivial?

Alignment mainly.  It pads stuff all over the place.  A lot of it can be
defeated - but not all, last time I looked.


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