Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261480AbUJaCmo (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:42:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261481AbUJaCmo (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:42:44 -0400 Received: from c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au ([136.186.1.30]:29968 "EHLO swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261480AbUJaCmm (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:42:42 -0400 To: Ken Moffat Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List From: Tim Connors Subject: Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] In-reply-to: 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> <1099176751.25194.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-test-to: Ken Moffat X-cc-to: Alan Cox , Lee Revell , Denis Vlasenko , Tim Hockin , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List X-reply-to-bofh-messageid: <2Vcy3-7un-13@gated-at.bofh.it> X-Face: +*%dmR:3=9i\[:8fga\UgZT#@`f=DU0(wQqI'AR2/r0sBMO}Ax\,V*cWaW-owRlUmuz&=v\KItx0:gRCBg1&z_"4x&-N#Di7))]~p2('`6|5.c3&:Z?VLU`Zt5Kb,~uC6 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:42:34 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1000 Lines: 22 Ken Moffat said on Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:09:54 +0000 (GMT): > and the time to load it is irrelevant. Since then I've had an anecdotal > report that -Os is known to cause problems with gnome. I s'pose people > will say it serves me right for doing my initial testing on ppc which > didn't have this problem ;) The point is that -Os is *much* less tested > than -O2 at the moment. Because people suck, and don't use it and hence test it. Ie, test it! I can't, because I prefer to stay away from gnome instead. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "Warning: Do not look into laser with remaining eye" -- a physics experiment "Press emergency laser shutdown button with remaining hand" -- J.D.Baldwin @ ASR - 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/