From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer  compilers
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:27:05 -0800
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On Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:11 pm, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I'm still not sure about in-source annotations for popularity. My
> suspicion is that it's just too workload-dependent, and a given
> author's workload will likely be biased towards their code.

To some extent that's true, but like Linus implied with his "5% work gets 
us 80% there" I think there are a ton of obvious cases, e.g. kmalloc, 
alloc_pages, interrupt handling, etc. that could be marked right away 
and put into a frequently used section.

Jesse
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