Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:28:14 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: support of older compilers |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 07:41:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 281572 Jul 30 1995 zImage-1.2.11 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 277476 Apr 1 1995 zImage-1.2.2 > > > Ok, you da man. What do you use it for? Or is it just lying around > > for nostalgic reasons? > > to remind us how large the kernel is getting? :)
Yeah, I know. Damn, it's scary. We should probably have some per-object-file statistics, and try to make people more aware of big bad things.
The kernel does do more these days than it did in '95. But 6 times more? I dunno..
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