Re: New (now current development process)

Linus Torvalds
2005-11-02T05:43:46Z

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> On an x86_64 allnoconfig kernel, I see the following sizes:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 795683 197356 116384 1109423 10edaf vmlinux-before
> 794894 197420 116384 1108698 10eada vmlinux-after

I really don't see the point of shaving less than a kB with ugly calling
convention magic, when switching to -Os can save us much more, and when
the networking code is several hundred kB.

If we start doing size optimizations, we need to think big.

Linus