On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > This saves about 96K memory on my 128MB machine, more on machines with
> > > bigger ram.
> >
> > I'd rather have just one list function than save a few kB of RAM. Avoid
> > confusion, and make people so used to that one list-handling functionalty
> > that bugs don't crop up as easily.
>
> 100Kb is not what I'd call a small amount of ram. Linux 0.12 probably fitted
> into it
Read the original email: the thing is scaled according to usable memory,
and the hash tables are big on purpose.
On a 8M machine, it's on the order of a few kB. It runs into the tens of
kB on a 32MB machine. It's not really signicifant, and I don't think the
code is worth it.
Linus
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