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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
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    * Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:39:31 +0200

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    >> > His patch improves the build process.
    >>
    >> I would like to know timing, btw. Size, especially shown 1%, doesn't
    >> matter if link time increased dramatically. `Allyes' config, when i
    >> had fast and rammish machine was terrible thing (last winter). If 32
    >> cores/cpus is will of author, then i'm even more suspicious.
    >
    > For non-developers size and speed of the kernel matter much more than
    > compile time.

    I'm talking about benefits for the process (developers, testers) and
    the result (end users, dogs eating own food :).

    > When you go towards embedded systems with limited resources a 1% size
    > decrease would often be worth it even if it would (hypothetically)
    > increase the compile time by a factor of 10.

    text data bss dec hex filename
    5159478 1005139 406784 6571401 644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux
    5131822 996090 401439 6529351 63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlinux

    Are this numbers show embedded target? I think no. Also time factor of
    *10* can be spent more productively reviewing actual code of parts, that
    are going to be embedded, no?

    []
    >> > There's nothing that requires treatment.
    >>
    >> [Help for] The developers/contributors of those drivers, no?
    >>...
    >
    > They did everything right.
    >
    > You should better try to understand the problem first before behaving as
    > if you knew everything better than everyone else...

    OK, thank you very much. Now, describe what problem you are talking
    about, please. I see non.
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