Re: [PATCH] trivial: the memset operation on a automatic array variable should be optimized out by data initialization

Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-25T00:24:19Z

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:12 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 05:09:16PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > if you care about the last cycle, don't specify -Os but -O2.
> > simple as that... you get what you tell the compiler you want.
>
> Certain distros are shipping kernels compiled with -Os. And it's more
> than just a couple of cycles.

so those distros pick space over some cycles. Who are you to then
override that choice ? ;-)

seriously, why are we even talking about overriding a choice the user
(or distro vendor as user) made here?

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