Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261452AbUJaAs6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:48:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261451AbUJaAs6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:48:58 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47286 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261452AbUJaAsu (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:48:50 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:48:48 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Lee Revell Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Tim Hockin , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] Message-ID: <20041031004848.GC19396@wotan.suse.de> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1099178405.1441.7.camel@krustophenia.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 18 On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:20:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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. It's true in some cases, but not true in others. Don't make it your gospel. -Andi - 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/