Re: [PATCH 1/2] Colored kernel output (run3)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Oct 07 2007 - 13:00:24 EST



* Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > vmlinux:
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 7732358 1157269 401408 9291035 8dc51b vmlinux.before
> > 7732374 1157269 401408 9291051 8dc52b vmlinux.after
> >
> >16 bytes, or 0.0002% of the total text size. So there's in essence no
> >text overhead to talk about. So the text overhead argument is a red
> >herring.
>
> 16 bytes, huh? Can't be. That would be like, perhaps 5, x86 instructions.

yes, it's that low, and it's with the feature disabled. (People who
enable a feature will of course see text size increase, but that's
beside the point.)

Ingo
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