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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:51:19 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Good enough approximation for ape/pcc
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On Mon Apr 10 09:18:01 CDT 2006, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> Brantley Coile wrote:
> It's humorous to see the inline madness, on machines with 512KB caches yet:
> [rminnich@q linux-2.6.16]$ grep -r -i 'static inline' . |wc
>    21262  142677 1810997
>
> yep, 21262 instances of 'static inline'. Even better:
>
> [rminnich@q linux-2.6.16]$ grep -r -i 'static inline' include/ | wc
>     8249   54789  689506
>
> so, like, 13K of them are NOT in .h. Which is worse, the fact that the
> code is replicated all over the place, via .h, or there are .c files
> with static inline in them? yikes.

the instructive thing about linux is that it doesn't use the c library. this
is because glibc is too big to put in the kernel (and too much of a moving target).

linux/gnu is suffering from a complication feedback loop.

- erik