On 30/08/2007, Mohamed Bamakhrama <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a question regarding the average number of assembly
> instructions per line of kernel code. I know that this is a difficult
> question since it depends on many factors such as the instruction set
> architecture, compiler used, optimizations used, type of code, coding
> style, etc...
> I would like to know a rough estimate for such a quantity for the
> kernel 2.4/2.6 code running on MIPS32 architecture.
> My estimate is between 5-10 instructions. I googled for such a thing
> but couldn't find any useful papers/resources.
>
Why don't you simply count the number of non-blank non-comment lines
in the source files that you are building, build the kernel and then
count the number of instructions in the resulting binary ?
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