From: Denis V. <vd...@po...> - 2003-02-05 11:52:11
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On 5 February 2003 12:36, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Denis Vlasenko <vd...@po...> writes: > |> I am damn sure that if you compile with less sadistic alignment > |> you will get smaller *and* faster kernel. > > So why don't you try it out? GCC offers everything you need for this > experiment. I did. Others did it too on occasion. My argument was against overusing optimization techniques. You cannot speed up kernel by aligning *everything* to 32 bytes, or by unrolling all loops, or by aggressive inlining. That's too easy to work. You get kernel which is bigger *and* slower. -- vda |