Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel

From: Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 10:50:18 EST


"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> said:
> And I'll add my comments about so-called "bloat".
>
> Given that the MS VC compiler consistently generates IA-32 code that is over
> 30% smaller than GCC, I would have to say that Linux would benefit far more
> by directing all of the energy spent complaining about code size toward
> optimizing the compiler.

Is it faster too? Or at least not slower? If not, what is the point?

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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