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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	smurf@smurf.noris.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:22:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4361B580.9090100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051028045837.GA1167@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:34:30PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>>Perhaps you could use dash for your project as well?
>>
>>Depends on how big it is.
> 
> 
> I just noticed that you were building it with -Os.  So I built
> dash with -Os and this is what I get:
> 
> $ size dash
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   64397     884   10240   75521   12701 dash
> $ size klibc-1.1.1/ash/sh.shared
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   66237     424   70908  137569   21961 klibc-1.1.1/ash/sh.shared
> 
> So it looks like as long as dash can link with klibc then:
> 
> 1) It should be smaller in size.
> 2) It should be more stable due to much wider testing coverage (Debian).
> 3) You get some extra bells & whistles thrown in for free like printf.
> 
> I'll let you know when I have a version that links with klibc.
> 
> Cheers,

Cool, thanks!

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-25 23:22 [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-26  0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-26  8:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-26  8:36     ` Petr Baudis
2005-10-27  8:50       ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-27  9:56         ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-27 15:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-27 18:00           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-28  3:20           ` Herbert Xu
2005-10-28  4:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-28  4:32               ` Herbert Xu
2005-10-28  4:34                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-28  4:58                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-10-28  5:22                     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-26  8:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-26  9:23   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-10-26 14:44     ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-26 14:55       ` Andreas Ericsson

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