Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:15:28 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Reduce number of pointer derefs in various files (kernel/exit.c used as example) |
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* Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ohh, and before I forget, besides the fact that this should speed > things up a little bit it also has the added benefit of reducing the > size of the generated code. The original kernel/exit.o file was 19604 > bytes in size, the patched one is 19508 bytes in size.
nice. Just to underline your point, on x86, with gcc 4.0.2, i'm getting this with your patch:
text data bss dec hex filename 11077 0 0 11077 2b45 exit.o.orig 10997 0 0 10997 2af5 exit.o
so 80 bytes shaved off. I think such patches also increase readability.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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