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Comment by camel-cdr

19 hours ago

Did a quick grep over object files of a half build defconfig kernel:

    total: 15510
    #0:  3720
    #31: 2247
    #1:  1349
    #21: 1208
    #2:  810
    #3:  524
    #8:  493
    ...

That is quite a good bit more evenly-spread (the "..." is 5159 instrs).

Wonder what's up with bit 21; if whatever uses it so much is repositionable (and not an aarch64-specific thing), could save like 2KB on x86-64 via putting it in the low 8 bits instead.