Re: [ACPI] ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel

[Ryan Cumming]

On January 25, 2002 08:15, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> These are all startup costs that are lost in the noise the longer the
> program runs.

Executable size is -not- just a startup cost. Larger executables will have a 
bigger memory footprint and less cache locality. A KDE desktop on 64megs of 
memory would be noticably more responsive if GCC generated executables the 
same size as VC++, due to less swap thrashing alone.

-Ryan