From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262841AbVG2Vkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:40:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262899AbVG2Vkd (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:40:33 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:18698 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262841AbVG2Vis (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:38:48 -0400 Message-ID: <42EAA05F.4000704@opersys.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:32:15 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Average instruction length in x86-built kernel? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm wondering if anyone's ever done an analysis on the average length of instructions in an x86-built kernel. Googling around, I can find references claiming that the average instruction length on x86 is anywhere from 2.7 to 3.5 bytes, but I can't find anything studying Linux specifically. Just curious, Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546