Re: [PATCH] 2.3.40: <linux/linkage.h> generates incorrect cache alignments

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2000 - 10:49:24 EST

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> I guess this should give the "let's throw five man-years at sequeezing
> 0.03871% worth of extra performance out of the kernel" folks some
> incentive ;-))

Better get the linker to recognize repeated strings and merge them? It
doesn't do that right now (binutils-2.9.5.0.24), and not only the kernel
would benefit.

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