Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

Adrian Bunk
2006-01-02T13:42:28Z

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:37:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> to say it loud and clear again: our current way of handling inlines is
> _FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN_. To me this means that fundamental changes are
> needed for the _mechanics_ and meaning of inlines. We default to 'always
> inline' which has a current information to noise ratio of 1:10 perhaps.
> My patch changes the mechanics and meaning of inlines, and pretty much
> anything else but a change to the meaning of inlines will still result
> in the same scenario occuring over and over again.

Let's emphasize what we both agree on:
It is _FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN_ that too much code is marked as
'always inline'.

We only disagree on how to achieve an improvement.

> Ingo

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Adrian

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