Messages in this thread | | | From | Roger Larsson <> | Subject | Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:11:36 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 18.27, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: > Of course part of the problem is that by designing the kernel for high mem > situations we're using more memory hogging algorithms. It's a simple > matter of features vs mem footprint.
Algorithms using lots of memory should be avoided even for newer computers. Cache misses HURTS.
That is why -Os can be a better compilation option than -O2 !
/RogerL
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