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SubjectRe: [patch-utility] remove whitespaces from kernel sources (for any kernel version)
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 :-)

Cheers,
Paul
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