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On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:19:30 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> In theory if you e.g. convert a recursive algorithm
> to iterative you might save some cache foot print, but I don't
> think that really happens in kernel code.
> 

this is what Al did for the symlink recursion thing, and Jens did for the block layer...
so yes this conversion does happen for real.

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