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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel bloat 2.4 vs. 2.5
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:59:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030305015957.GA27985@f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030304154105.7a2db7fa.akpm@digeo.com>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu> wrote:

> > I've seen surprisingly few messages about the dramatic size
> > increase between a simple 2.4 and a 2.5 kernel image.

> 2.4 has magical size reduction tricks in it which were not brought
> into 2.5 because we expect that gcc will do it for us.

I can't see it helping *that* much, for me I have:

    charon:~/wk/linux% size 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux bk-2.5.x/vmlinux
       text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    2003887  120260  191657 2315804  23561c 2.4.x-cw/vmlinux
    2411323  267551  181004 2859878  2ba366 bk-2.5.x/vmlinux

    gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

this is for functionally (in terms of .config) equivalent kernels.


  --cw

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-05  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-04 22:42 Kernel bloat 2.4 vs. 2.5 Daniel Egger
2003-03-04 23:41 ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-05  1:59   ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2003-03-05  2:11     ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-05  2:23     ` Robert Love
2003-03-05  2:32       ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-05  2:37         ` Robert Love
2003-03-05  3:13           ` Steven Cole
2003-03-05  3:06       ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-03-05  2:35     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-06  3:25   ` Daniel Egger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-06 14:22 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-03-06 19:51 ` Daniel Egger
2003-03-06 23:34   ` Andreas Boman
2003-03-06 23:44     ` Joel Becker
2003-03-07 13:33     ` Daniel Egger

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