Re: [PATCH -tip 2/2] x86/hweight: Use POPCNT when available with X86_NATIVE_CPU option
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Mar 30 2025 - 15:28:43 EST
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 09:20:28PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Tangible code size reduction, if it can be realized, is definitely
> 'something', so your claim is simply false.
I don't think you're reading my mails.
What "tangible code size reduction"?
9K vmlinux size?
For sections which are getting jettisoned after boot?
So now the rule is what: make the asm an unreadable mess just to save 9K disk
space?
I call that bullshit. A total and stinking one.
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Boris.
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