scripts/bloat-o-meter: don't use readlines()
readlines() conses whole list before doing anything which is slower for big object files. Use per line iterator. Speed up is ~2% on "allyesconfig" type of kernel. $ perf stat -r 16 taskset -c 15 ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux >/dev/null ... Before: 7.247708646 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.28% ) After: 7.091202853 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.15% ) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161119004143.GA1200@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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