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On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and produces > > > a kernel which is 200k larger. > > > > I just tried it on PPC. Compared to 2.95.4, gcc-3.3 took 36% longer > > to compile and produced a kernel which was 120k smaller. > > I have the same experience w.r.t. kernel size on MIPS, using 2.95.4 from > Debian woody on the target, and 3.2.2 for cross-compiling. > > Perhaps the code increase is for CISC only? In another branch of this thread Andrew said it's due to extra alignment padding (presumably with a view to improving execution speed) and Herbert Xu mentioned out-of-line conditional branch compilation, both of which sould reasonable to me. They also sound like they could or should be trivially switchable. Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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