From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:44:53 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Subject: Re: KernelSizesA self-imposed limit of 16K held in v1, and was quite fullyutilized.Subject:Re: Kernel Sizes In-Reply-To: <201801211651.w0LGpTx4011480@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201801211651.w0LGpTx4011480@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:51 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > 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. > 16k words or 16k bytes? Given some of the other reported sizes I'm guessing it's bytes. Warner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: