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From: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:05:55 -0800
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On January 25, 2002 08:15, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise the longer the
> program runs.

Executable size is -not- just a startup cost. Larger executables will have a 
bigger memory footprint and less cache locality. A KDE desktop on 64megs of 
memory would be noticably more responsive if GCC generated executables the 
same size as VC++, due to less swap thrashing alone.

-Ryan
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