Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:41:57 +0200 | From | Paul Wagland <> | Subject | Re: [patch-utility] remove whitespaces from kernel sources (for any kernel version) |
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On Tue 31 Aug 2004 02:11:11 PM CEST, Alexander Stohr wrote:
> Hello, > > for current 2.6.x kernel a resulting diff had a size > of about 24 MB unpacked. i suppose that other kernel > trees will compare to this magnitude.
Don't forget though, that the actual file difference will be about 200K over a 34M tree... not trivial, but nowhere near that size of that diff file ;-)
> this means the linux kernel source has an interesting potential > for optimisation which will result in smaller tarballs,
About 180 KB smaller...
> faster compilation in misc stages of code preprocessing
neglible change in speed...
> and last but not least lesser fuzz in diffs for people > that do use editors which will strip such charcters by themselves.
This would be useful :-)
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