Advantages of trimmed kernel?

[RW]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 17:18, Eric Schuele wrote:

> FWIW... Its my understanding that
>   - the memory saved would be negligible.

As I understand it the argument in favour of smaller kernels isn't that they 
free-up memory for other uses, it's that they make better uses of memory 
cache.

OTOH big blocks of code that are rarely entered probably aren't going to 
degrade performance much.