Re: New (now current development process)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> On an x86_64 allnoconfig kernel, I see the following sizes:
> 
> 	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 	 795683	 197356	 116384	1109423	 10edaf	vmlinux-before
> 	 794894	 197420	 116384	1108698	 10eada	vmlinux-after

I really don't see the point of shaving less than a kB with ugly calling 
convention magic, when switching to -Os can save us much more, and when 
the networking code is several hundred kB.

If we start doing size optimizations, we need to think big.

		Linus
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