On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 20:34 -0500, Steve Snyder wrote: > I notice that the Fedora kernels have the optimize-for-size option > enabled. Why is this? Sometimes optimising for size also results in faster performance due to loops being tighter, possibly fitting into cache where they might not do otherwise. > The Fedora developers seem not to expect their kernels to be run on > low-memory systems, given that the 4GB memory map is also enabled. The new 2.6.9-1.724 kernel scraps the 4G/4G patch. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
