Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261419AbUJ3XZw (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:25:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261434AbUJ3XV5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:21:57 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:52171 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261436AbUJ3XUH (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:20:07 -0400 Subject: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] From: Lee Revell To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: Tim Hockin , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200410310213.37712.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <200410310111.07086.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20041030222720.GA22753@hockin.org> <200410310213.37712.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:20:04 -0400 Message-Id: <1099178405.1441.7.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 15 On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 02:13 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > It's sort of frightening that someone will need to > rewrite Xlib or, say, OpenOffice :( I think very few application developers understand the point Linus made - that bigger code IS slower code due to cache misses. If this were widely understood we would be in pretty good shape. Lee - 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/