Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:42:28 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers |
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On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:37:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >... > to say it loud and clear again: our current way of handling inlines is > _FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN_. To me this means that fundamental changes are > needed for the _mechanics_ and meaning of inlines. We default to 'always > inline' which has a current information to noise ratio of 1:10 perhaps. > My patch changes the mechanics and meaning of inlines, and pretty much > anything else but a change to the meaning of inlines will still result > in the same scenario occuring over and over again.
Let's emphasize what we both agree on: It is _FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN_ that too much code is marked as 'always inline'.
We only disagree on how to achieve an improvement.
> Ingo
cu Adrian
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