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    Subject[OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]
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    On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 02:13 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
    > It's sort of frightening that someone will need to
    > rewrite Xlib or, say, OpenOffice :(

    I think very few application developers understand the point Linus made
    - that bigger code IS slower code due to cache misses. If this were
    widely understood we would be in pretty good shape.

    Lee

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