Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264976AbTFVNTF (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:19:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264982AbTFVNTF (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:19:05 -0400 Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:52891 "EHLO mail-in-05.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264976AbTFVNTE (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:19:04 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Geert Uytterhoeven , Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH] Isapnp warning Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:34:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Andrew Morton , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , cw@f00f.org, Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , perex@suse.cz, Linux Kernel Development References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306221534.02518.phillips@arcor.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1144 Lines: 29 On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and produces > > > a kernel which is 200k larger. > > > > I just tried it on PPC. Compared to 2.95.4, gcc-3.3 took 36% longer > > to compile and produced a kernel which was 120k smaller. > > I have the same experience w.r.t. kernel size on MIPS, using 2.95.4 from > Debian woody on the target, and 3.2.2 for cross-compiling. > > Perhaps the code increase is for CISC only? In another branch of this thread Andrew said it's due to extra alignment padding (presumably with a view to improving execution speed) and Herbert Xu mentioned out-of-line conditional branch compilation, both of which sould reasonable to me. They also sound like they could or should be trivially switchable. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/