Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752330AbWAFAcQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:32:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752324AbWAFAcQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:32:16 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3463 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752276AbWAFAcN (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:32:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:27:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar cc: Martin Bligh , Matt Mackall , Arjan van de Ven , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Dave Jones , Tim Schmielau Subject: Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers In-Reply-To: <20060106001519.GA15520@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <1136463553.2920.22.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060105170255.GK3356@waste.org> <43BD5E6F.1040000@mbligh.org> <43BD784F.4040804@mbligh.org> <20060105233049.GA3441@elte.hu> <20060106001519.GA15520@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 688 Lines: 21 On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Especially if there enough profiling hits, it's usually a quick glance > to figure out the hotpath: Ehh. What's a "quick glance" to a human can be quite hard to automate. That's my point. If we do the "human quick glances", we won't be seeing much come out of this. That's what we've already been doing, for several years. I thought the discussion was about trying to automate this.. Linus - 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/