On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:02:22PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> At least for mips, gcc 4.1.2 builds smaller code than gcc 3.3.3, with a
> rough estimate of 10% smaller, and up to 15% in some cases.  Here's a
> few examples built from the same source tree:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    3320     156      52    3528     dc8 rhone.root-EL-gcc3/bin/sync
>    2841     164      52    3057     bf1 rhone.root-EL-gcc4/bin/sync

The change I saw was between two sub-versions of 4.1.2, and code
compiled with -Os.  I suspect the -O2 is smaller (possibly just due
to changes in the code aligment rules!)

(Oh and I did mention 3.3.3...)

	David

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