Re: Compiling Programs

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:06:30PM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Recent experience is that optimizing for size often *improves* performance,
> due to better cache behavior. Presuming memory is free is now a major
> fallicy in programming. It is generally very expensive to touch, in terms
> of cycles.

Sure, but apparently the kernel is the exception on the rule. Which was
to be expected, though: the kernel already contains performance
optimised code.

Erik
[who still has to run that -Os optimised kernel]

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