Re: [PATCH 7/8] Remove current_tick_length()

[Ray Lee]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > > Is there any additional rational for this change?
>  > >
>  > > Useless bloat?
>  >
>  > I agree its a trade off. But do you have performance numbers to make the
>  > maintainability trade off worth it? (I admit, it is used in the
>  > timer_interrupt, so it may very well be worth it, but we might want to
>  > check first).
>
>  It depends on the architecture, but it's effects regularly executed code
>  and every byte counts.

Then make the original function an inline. With -O2 it should compile
to exactly the same thing.
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