Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:20:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel sizes Message-ID: <199609211820.MAA12668@rover.village.org>
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Something must be very very wrong. My new kernel is 30k smaller than my old (1month old) kernel. :-) I built a kernel on Aug 24, and got the following: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 884812 Aug 24 15:23 /kernel Today, I build last night's kernel with exactly the same config file, and I get: -rwxr-xr-x 1 imp wheel 853988 Sep 21 12:10 kernel A 30k reduction in size isn't supposed to happen. Where are the new features? What was in that 30k? Even size(1) tells the same story. A 3.5% reduction on the size of the kernel after a month of fixes. I kinda like that :-) Any ideas why things are this much smaller? I know Bruce did a lot of work on optimizing the size of the boot blocks... This is, btw, with the same compiler. I've not done a make world yet, so it isn't a 2.6.3 vs 2.7.2.1 issue. Congratulations! This is the first time I've seen things move smaller in a long time. Warner
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