Re: [2.6 patch] add a config option for -Os compilation

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 09:31:26 EST


> "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > It would take a quite a lot of work to measure this properly. A simple A/B
>> > comparison doesn't cut it.
>>
>> So why are we changing it then? ;-)
>
> It is very easy to demonstrate that it saves 300 kilobytes of memory.

OK, fair enough - so can we either do:

1) a config option

or

2) if you hate that, at least switch it to -O2 on CONFIG_SMP, on the grounds
that such systems generally have larger caches, and plenty of RAM.

M.

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