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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 23, 2008, 04:54 UTC
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Christian MICHON wrote:
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> There's more than 80k difference with your figures (I have not even
> applied your patch yet).
> May I ask which version of gcc you're using ? The numbers you provided
> were really with -Os ?
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?

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.

			Linus
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