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On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:55 +0800, Dave Young wrote:

> Spliting is necessary from my point of view.

> with the patches applied:
> 
> time:
> real 15m16.504s
> user 12m51.866s
> sys 1m39.700s
> 
> vmlinux .text size: 003bfcd2
> 
> without the patches applied*
> time:
> real 15m20.518s
> user 12m54.120s
> sys 1m40.190s
> 
> vmlinux .text size: 003bfcea

Why the change in text size? If moving stuff around in headers affects
the final result, I'm thinking that you did something wrong.

The merge for x86 did a lot of file manipulation, but Thomas and Ingo
would always test that the binary result was the same. If the binary
result is different, then something went wrong with the file
manipulations.

-- Steve