Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:52:33 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2004-10-31 at 00:20, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
On my laptop both Openoffice and gnome are measurably faster if you build the lot with -Os (except a couple of image libs)
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