Without the bloated cplus_demangle from binutils, i.e building with:

$ make NO_DEMANGLE=1 O=~acme/git/build/perf -j3 -C tools/perf/ install

Before:

text data bss dec hex filename
471851 29280 4025056 4526187 45106b /home/acme/bin/perf

After:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ size ~/bin/perf
text data bss dec hex filename
446886 29232 4008576 4484694 446e56 /home/acme/bin/perf

So its a 5.3% size reduction in code, but the interesting part is in the git
diff --stat output:

19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1909 deletions(-)

If we ever need some of the things we got from git but weren't using, we just
have to go to the git repo and get fresh, uptodate source code bits.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Tom Zanussi
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Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo