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SubjectRe: Average number of instructions per line of kernel code

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mohamed Bamakhrama 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

Here's a quick answer, not the best, but quick.

I took a user space flash memory driver I'm doing at work and compiled it
on my R5000 at home using gcc 4.1 and the MIPS3 abi, stopping with a .o
file. I also ran the source through cpp and a couple of grep passes to
strip out junk that wasn't really code. This driver may be somewhat
typical of what you would run into as it has quite a few inline functions
and such.

The driver.o was about 23000 bytes. Forgetting about the symboltables and
just dividing by 4 to estimate instructions and dividing by about 1650
net lines of code, I got about 3.5 instructions per line of C code.

I'm guessing that ball park, you're looking at 3-5 average - 10 seems high
except in sections with lots and lots of inlines.

Regards,

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