Re: [PATCH/RFC] headers: drop 2 #included headers from <linux/interrupt.h>

[Ingo Molnar]

* Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] Now I finally got around to writing some scripts for that, so here's a 
> visualization of (the evolution of) the problem:
> 
> https://wildmoose.dk/header-bloat/

Nice! In particular your final conclusion is impressive and scary:

> So the typical (median) translation unit ends up including over 450 headers 
> files, making the whole TU about 200 times bigger than the .c file itself, while 
> more than 25% of the translation units get bloated to over 400 times the size of 
> the .c file.

Even with a lot of this being eliminated at fairly early compiling stages that's a 
*huge* chunk of code that needs to be parsed again and again and again and again 
...

> I hope to find some time soonish to polish the old programs and see if they 
> actually still work.

That would be lovely!

Thanks,

	Ingo