Subject: Re: various upgrade comments (jan5 ->feb6)
To: None <lm@rmit.edu.au, owner-current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/07/1994 23:09:56
The kernel increased in size by about 50KB, [...]
Sounds like you weren't using `-m486' for the kernel before. It forces
alignment to 16-byte (`paragraph' in Intel parlance) boundaries rather
than 4-byte. In practice, this only really tends to make the code much
larger; the performance benefit is negligible if any.
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