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Subject: Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> 
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:50:18 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> said:
> And I'll add my comments about so-called "bloat".
> 
> Given that the MS VC compiler consistently generates IA-32 code that is over
> 30% smaller than GCC, I would have to say that Linux would benefit far more
> by directing all of the energy spent complaining about code size toward
> optimizing the compiler.

Is it faster too? Or at least not slower? If not, what is the point?
-- 
Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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