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Message-ID: <9a8748490708300631o285fd31ch462199ec9535c6c2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:31:12 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com> To: bamakhrama@...il.com Cc: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Average number of instructions per line of kernel code On 30/08/2007, Mohamed Bamakhrama <bamakhrama@...il.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I have a question regarding the average number of assembly > instructions per line of kernel code. I know that this is a difficult > question since it depends on many factors such as the instruction set > architecture, compiler used, optimizations used, type of code, coding > style, etc... > I would like to know a rough estimate for such a quantity for the > kernel 2.4/2.6 code running on MIPS32 architecture. > My estimate is between 5-10 instructions. I googled for such a thing > but couldn't find any useful papers/resources. > Why don't you simply count the number of non-blank non-comment lines in the source files that you are building, build the kernel and then count the number of instructions in the resulting binary ? -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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