Messages in this thread | | | From | Ryan Cumming <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:05:55 -0800 |
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On January 25, 2002 08:15, Andreas Schwab wrote: > These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise the longer the > program runs.
Executable size is -not- just a startup cost. Larger executables will have a bigger memory footprint and less cache locality. A KDE desktop on 64megs of memory would be noticably more responsive if GCC generated executables the same size as VC++, due to less swap thrashing alone.
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