On Thursday 13 April 2006 04:24, Dave Dillow wrote: > Regardless, I remain opposed to this particular instance of bloat > busting. While both patches have improved in style, they remove a useful > feature and make the code less clean, for no net gain.
What happened to non-modular build? "no net gain" is not true. > > This kind of changes are important, because bloat creeps in byte by byte > > of unused features. So I really appreciate your work here Denis. > > On SMP FC4, typhoon.ko has a text size of 68330, so you need to cut 2794 > bytes to see an actual difference in memory usage for a module. Non-SMP > it is 67741, so there you only need to cut 2205 bytes to get a win. This is silly. Should I go this route and try a dozen of different gcc versions and "-O2 versus -Os" things to demonstrate that sometimes it will matter? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
