From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 05:22:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Message-ID: <4361B580.9090100@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051028045837.GA1167@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:34:30PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>>Perhaps you could use dash for your project as well?
>>
>>Depends on how big it is.
> 
> 
> I just noticed that you were building it with -Os.  So I built
> dash with -Os and this is what I get:
> 
> $ size dash
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   64397     884   10240   75521   12701 dash
> $ size klibc-1.1.1/ash/sh.shared
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   66237     424   70908  137569   21961 klibc-1.1.1/ash/sh.shared
> 
> So it looks like as long as dash can link with klibc then:
> 
> 1) It should be smaller in size.
> 2) It should be more stable due to much wider testing coverage (Debian).
> 3) You get some extra bells & whistles thrown in for free like printf.
> 
> I'll let you know when I have a version that links with klibc.
> 
> Cheers,

Cool, thanks!

	-hpa