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Re: [PATCH] PR 16373: -fomit-frame-pointer when optimizing on x86
* Paolo Bonzini:
>> I don't understand your distinction between code and data directly
>> supporting code execution. If executable machine code size is the
>> only criterion, we could compile code to P-code and have almost zero
>> code size, but I fail to see how this would help those who struggle
>> with code size.
>
> Unwind data is never loaded from disk in the first place, it only
> wastes address space. Read-only is shared between different
> "instances" of the same applications, and swapped to/from the on-disk
> binary rather than the swap file.
Disk? What is a disk? 8-)