On Wednesday 02 November 2005 00:05, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Anyway, it would be great to find ways to make big improvements. But > > I think the most realistic way to shrink the kernel is the same way it > > grows in the first place -- one small piece at a time. > > No, I think that's a lost cause. > > It doesn't grow by 700 bytes once in a while. It grows by much more, and > much more often. And we can't fight it that way, that's just not going to > work. Maybe have something that tracks individual object file sizes and > shames people into not growing them.. nm --size-sort vmlinux Old busybox size optimization trick. Running it on 2.6.14 "allnoconfig" attached. Lots and lots of small symbols (sizes are in hex), with no really big low-hanging fruit jumping out. Rob
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