On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> It's stable enough that I've been able to debug and complete a bootstrap
> of gcc (trunk) compiling to Thumb code.  The size savings are quite
> impressive:
>
> On my shark the size of the cc1 binary is
>
> shark1:egcs [759] $ size gcc/cc1
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 3677285    6432  330916 4014633  3d4229 gcc/cc1
>
> Whereas on the integrator we see
> integrator:gcc [611] $ size gcc/cc1
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 2727208    6392  330496 3064096  2ec120 cc1
>
> which represents a 30.2% saving in code size.

Nice.

Does this space saving come with a performance gain or a performance hit?

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