Messages in this thread | | | From | Ryan Cumming <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:02:32 -0800 |
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On January 25, 2002 07:50, Horst von Brand wrote: > > 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?
Storing 30% less executable pages in memory? Reading 30% less executable pages off the disk? Performing 30% less relocations?
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