Subject: Re: How to compare a kernel built with GCC 3.4.2 and GCC 4.0 (preliminary)
To: Vincent <10.50@free.fr>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/2004 18:32:14
On Monday 08 Nov 2004 16:15, Vincent wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer a =C3=A9crit :
> > http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ ?
> > pkgsrc/benchmarks/* ?
>
> Okay, I'll try that.
>
> One thing is certain :
>
> # ll /netbsd /netbsd.old
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3192189 Nov 8 16:46 /netbsd
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3273130 Nov 2 09:48 /netbsd.old
>
> GCC 4.0 output is almost 80 kB lighter.
That can be misleading. What does size(1) report?
R.