On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:32, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > Andrew Morton writes:
> > > Compared to 2.95.3, gcc-3.3 takes 1.5x as long to compile, and produces
> > > a kernel which is 200k larger.
> >
> > I just tried it on PPC. Compared to 2.95.4, gcc-3.3 took 36% longer
> > to compile and produced a kernel which was 120k smaller.
>
> I have the same experience w.r.t. kernel size on MIPS, using 2.95.4 from
> Debian woody on the target, and 3.2.2 for cross-compiling.
>
> Perhaps the code increase is for CISC only?
In another branch of this thread Andrew said it's due to extra alignment
padding (presumably with a view to improving execution speed) and Herbert Xu
mentioned out-of-line conditional branch compilation, both of which sould
reasonable to me. They also sound like they could or should be trivially
switchable.
Regards,
Daniel
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