Advantages of trimmed kernel?

[RW]

On Monday 11 December 2006 01:47, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On 12/11/06, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Security through less code? Hmm, dunno.

Who mentioned security?