Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270498AbTHLPpy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:45:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270501AbTHLPpy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:45:54 -0400 Received: from mail.ccur.com ([208.248.32.212]:62476 "EHLO exchange.ccur.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270498AbTHLPpw (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:45:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:45:36 -0400 From: Joe Korty To: Alan Cox Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option Message-ID: <20030812154535.GA5686@tsunami.ccur.com> Reply-To: joe.korty@ccur.com References: <20030811211145.GA569@fs.tum.de> <1060695341.21160.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1060695341.21160.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 17 On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-08-11 at 22:11, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> + Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc >> + resulting in a smaller kernel. >> + >> + The resulting kernel might be significantly slower. > > With most of the gcc's I tried -Os was faster. Because of a better L1-instruction cache footprint? Joe - 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/