[OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sat Oct 30 2004 - 18:30:15 EST


On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 02:13 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> It's sort of frightening that someone will need to
> rewrite Xlib or, say, OpenOffice :(

I think very few application developers understand the point Linus made
- that bigger code IS slower code due to cache misses. If this were
widely understood we would be in pretty good shape.

Lee

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