From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Endianness macros capitalization
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215801190.30367.3.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48775E47.8010307@t-online.de>
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:21 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Very nice optimization idea!
>
> The practical advantage is probably limited by the fact that kernel.img
> and most of the modules typically included in a i386-pc core.img are not
> affected.
>
> I attached a diff of "size *.mod" outputs for the test mentioned in my
> last mail. '-' original code, '+' grub_swap_*() replaced by dummies.
> Large savings potential is in afs.mod, hfs*.mod, and xfs.mod.
...
> - 4980 40 16 5036 13ac xfs.mod
> + 2924 40 16 2980 ba4 xfs.mod
It is a big deal for xfs users. Even more so for gpt+raid+lvm+xfs
users, who are against the wall :-)
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-05 13:27 Endianness macros capitalization Javier Martín
2008-07-05 21:30 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-05 22:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-05 23:14 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-06 18:30 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-06 20:02 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-07 19:25 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-08 18:04 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-09 6:47 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-09 12:50 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-09 17:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-10 19:25 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-10 19:59 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-11 7:06 ` Jordi Mallach
2008-07-11 8:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-11 9:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-11 13:21 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-11 18:33 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-20 13:45 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-20 23:31 ` Pavel Roskin
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