From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 14/44] generic hweight{64,32,16,8}()
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:24:27 +0100
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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:26, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:02, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > 
> >>+static inline unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w)
> []
> > How large are these functions on x86? Maybe it would be better to not inline them,
> > but put it into some C file out of line.
> 
> hweight8	47 bytes
> hweight16	76 bytes
> hweight32	97 bytes
> hweight64	56 bytes (NOT inlining hweight32)
> hweight64	197 bytes (inlining hweight32)
> 
> Those are when compiled as separate non-inlined functions,
> with pushl %ebp and ret.

This would argue for moving them out of line.

-Andi
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