• Linus Torvalds's avatar
    Expose "Optimize for size" option for everybody · 0910b444
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Let's put my money where my mouth is.  Smaller code is almost always
    faster, if only because a single I$ miss ends up leaving a lot of cycles
    to make up for.  And system software - kernels in particular - are known
    for taking more cache misses than most other kinds.
    
    On my random config, this made the kernel about 10% smaller, and lmbench
    seems to say that it's pretty uniformly faster too. Your milage may vary.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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