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Re: Shrink the git binary a bit by avoiding unnecessary inline functions

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Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
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Jun 23, 2008, 05:26 UTC
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC)
>
> Also notice that this is x86-64, maybe you're 32-bit?
it is an AMD 64, but the ubuntu and detaolb are indeed 32 bits distros.
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>
> You also have much smaller size difference (616606 -> 591554 is just over
> 16kB), but if my version of gcc bloats things up more, then I'm not
> surprised that the difference is bigger too.
>
I guess I should compare results between compiler versions too...
Thanks for the explainations.
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Christian
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