Re: [PATCH 0/4] Compile kernel with -fwhole-program --combine

From: Ian Stirling
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 15:33:47 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 12:52 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
And a "make optImage" (optimized image) when building a
kernel for production use, when you believe compiling every file
and spending lots of extra time is worth it.
<snip>
But if, as I suggest, we're doing the simple option which combines only
the files which tend to get most benefit from it -- those which are in
the same directory -- then there's not a lot of point in the separate
target. It really doesn't take that much extra time.

I thought that it used rather a lot more RAM. I still often(ish) compile a kernel on my PII/300/128M. It'd be moderately annoying if it got slower, and there was no way to turn it off.
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