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Hi Andi,

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > To a large extent, I agree. I certainly don't want to focus solely on
> > code size; there's a lot more to embedded Linux than that. But it _is_
>
>  Not only code size, far more important is dynamic memory consumption.
>  [admittedly we right now lack a good instrumentation framework for this]

There's a Google Summer of Code project going on now to implement such
instrumentation:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/linux/appinfo.html?csaid=E749E676AD70FBB0

So any suggestions/input on this is obviously welcome.