Re: [PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in nf_conntrack_core.c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 05:10:31 EST



* Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> orig:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 12636 49 760 13445 3485 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.o
>
> patched:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 11825 183 632 12640 3160 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.o

just a question - are you sure the measurements are accurate in this
case? The patch looks too small to shave more than 800 bytes off .text!
If it's real then something really wrong is going on in gcc-land ...

Ingo
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