On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:38 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > 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.
Ok, so you saved what, 200 bytes? On a few drivers that may save you a small amount -- you basically said you had to have everything loaded to see 5K. Weren't most of those savings from moving a big function out-of-line? The part I agree with? > > > 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? Quit being dense. No one has said that there are cases will it make a difference, just that that case is far removed from the usual case. I think I'm done on this topic. You've got more important people to convince than me, and they've already clear stated their position. -- Dave Dillow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
