Re: [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max().

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 at 12:04, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So we *could* plan on that, remove the checks from min/max, and use
> something like the attached patch.

Whee.

On my machine, that patch makes an "allmodconfig" build go from

    10:41 elapsed

to

     8:46 elapsed

so that min/max type checking is almost 20% of the build time.

Yeah, I think we need to get rid of it.

Can somebody else confirm similar time differences? Or is it just me?

                 Linus