On 24 September 2002 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> (And if there's more than a 1% variation between same kernel, compiled
> with different compilers then the test is bust. Kernel CPU time is
> dominated by cache misses and runtime is dominated by IO wait.
> Quality of code generation is of tiny significance)
Well, not exactly. If it is true that Intel/MS compilers beat GCC
by 30% on code size, 30% smaller kernel ought to make some difference.
However, that will become a GCC code quality benchmark then.
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