On 30/08/2007, Mohamed Bamakhrama <bamakhrama@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
