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![Alexey Brodkin](/assets/img/avatar_default.png)
U-Boot is a bit special piese of software because it is being only executed once on power-on as compared to operating system for example. That's why we don't care much about performance optimizations instead we're more concerned about size. And up-to-date compilers might produce much smaller code compared to performance-optimized routines copy-pasted from the Linux kernel. Here's an example: ------------------------------->8-------------------------- --- size_asm_strings.txt +++ size_c_strings.txt @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ text data bss dec hex filename - 121260 3784 3308 128352 1f560 u-boot + 120448 3784 3308 127540 1f234 u-boot ------------------------------->8-------------------------- See we were able to shave off ~800 bytes of .text section. Also usage of string routines implemented in C gives us an ability to support more HW flavors for free: generated instructions will match our target as long as correct compiler option is used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
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