Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261431AbUJ3X73 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:59:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261451AbUJ3X5a (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:57:30 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:28079 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261436AbUJ3Xze (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:55:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] From: Alan Cox To: Lee Revell Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Tim Hockin , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1099178405.1441.7.camel@krustophenia.net> 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> <1099178405.1441.7.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1099176751.25194.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:52:33 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 615 Lines: 13 On Sul, 2004-10-31 at 00:20, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. On my laptop both Openoffice and gnome are measurably faster if you build the lot with -Os (except a couple of image libs) - 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/