Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261321AbTIKODW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:03:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261340AbTIKODW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:03:22 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:5190 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261321AbTIKODU (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:03:20 -0400 To: insecure@mail.od.ua Cc: Michael Frank , Yann Droneaud , fruhwirth clemens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rn?= Engel Subject: Re: nasm over gas? References: <20030904104245.GA1823@leto2.endorphin.org> <200309052028.37367.insecure@mail.od.ua> <200309100034.58742.insecure@mail.od.ua> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 11 Sep 2003 08:03:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200309100034.58742.insecure@mail.od.ua> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 22 insecure writes: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 21:49, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > insecure writes: > > > On Friday 05 September 2003 15:59, Michael Frank wrote: > > > What gives you an impression that anyone is going to rewrite linux in > > > asm? I _only_ saying that compiler-generated asm is not 'good'. It's > > > mediocre. Nothing more. I am not asm zealot. > > > > I think I would agree with that statement most compiler-generated assembly > > code is mediocre in general. At the same time I would add most human > > generated assembly is poor, and a pain to maintain. > > I had an impression people think gcc generates code which > is 'mostly good' even compared to handwritted code. > That is not true (yet). It is true. Not when compared to hand optimized code. But compared to a day to day churn it is true. Although I tend to still prefer gcc 2.95 for the code size. Eric - 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/