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Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:03:28 +0200
From: Matan Peled <chaosite@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Arjan's noinline Patch
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Kurt Wall wrote:
> the "noinline" cases were built with Arjan's patch and
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE; the "inline" kernels were built,
> obviously, without the patch and without CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE.

Wait, so how do we know if its GCC's -Os that caused the reduction in .text 
size, or the noinline patch ... ?

To get actual results, you should either take OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE out the equation 
or use it on the other kernel as well...

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