Why is kernel optimized for size?

Ulrich Drepper drepper at redhat.com
Tue Jan 4 02:12:33 UTC 2005


Steve Snyder wrote:
> Is there some benefit that -Os confers over -O2 beyond the sligh savings 
> in system memory use?

For the kernel, as for several other packages like OO.org, smaller is 
also faster.

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