Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:45:36 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] add an -Os config option |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-08-11 at 22:11, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> + Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc >> + resulting in a smaller kernel. >> + >> + The resulting kernel might be significantly slower. > > With most of the gcc's I tried -Os was faster.
Because of a better L1-instruction cache footprint?
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