From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 11:51:29 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Subject: Re: KernelSizesA self-imposed limit of 16K held in
 v1, and was quite fullyutilized.Subject:Re:  Kernel Sizes
Message-ID: <201801211651.w0LGpTx4011480@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>


A self-imposed limit of 16K held in v1, and was quite fully utilized.
When the iernel was rewritten in C, the limit (perhaps larger by then)
influenced the C compiler. More than one optimization was stimulated
by the need to keep the kernel in bounds.

Doug