Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:20:04 -0400 |
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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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