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

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 11:15:46 EST


Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org> writes:

|> On January 25, 2002 07:50, Horst von Brand wrote:
|> > > 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?
|>
|> Storing 30% less executable pages in memory? Reading 30% less executable
|> pages off the disk?

These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise the longer the
program runs.

|> Performing 30% less relocations?

30% less code does not imply 30% less relocations.

Andreas.

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