On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > shrinks fs/select.o by eight bytes. (More than I expected). So it
> > does appear to be a space win, but a pretty slim one.
>
> there are 855 calls to these functions in the allyesconfig vmlinux i
> did, and i measured a combined size reduction of 34791 bytes. That
> averages to a 40 bytes win per call site. (on i386.)
And more importantly it's a function that's called in slowpathes per
definition. So saving text sounds like a good idea, how minimal it
may be.
>
> Ingo
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