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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: gcc inlining heuristics was Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement
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<comic relief>

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>   code tends to get a lot more I$ and D$ misses. Deep call-chains _will_ 

I feel like an idiot that I never realized that "I$" meant
"instruction cache" until now :-p

</comic relief>

-- Steve


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