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

[Jamie Lokier]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's sad that gcc relegates "optimize for size" to a second-class
> citizen.  Instead of having a "-Os" (that optimizes for size and doesn't
> work together with other optimizations), it would be better to have a
> "-Olargecode", which explicitly enables "don't care about code size" for
> those (few) applications where it makes sense.

Btw, there have been suggestions that -Os may actually be faster for x86
code on current processors.

-- Jamie