Re: [PATCH RFC 1/5] scripts: Add sortextable to sort the kernel'sexception table.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/18/2011 11:37 AM, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Using this build-time sort saves time booting as we don't have to burn
> cycles sorting the exception table.
> 

If we're going to do this at build time, I would suggest using a
collisionless hash instead.  The lookup time for those are O(1), but
they definitely need to be done at build time.

	-hpa

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