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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:48:47 -0500
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: a little speedup and cleanup
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On 9/16/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Generated in 2.6.14-rc1-mm1 kernel version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
> ---
> 
>  platform.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Performance improvement -- we don't need to zero all allocated memory, only a
>        few bytes from the beginning.

Is there any numbers? How much does this speed up save compared to
increased object size?

;)

-- 
Dmitry
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