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Re: 20% space savings!
- From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:28:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: 20% space savings!
- References: <200308191814.h7JIETLn022619@duracef.shout.net>
On Aug 19, 2:14pm, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> I pulled a Daniel Berlin last night (in a good way) and started
> packing structures like a #4 train at rush hour.
>
> 'maint space' has gone from:
>
> before: 99352576
> after: 79478784
>
> It would take a lot of time to merge these patches into gdb.
> I would have to write up a road map, and then test the patches
> one at a time (that is the hard part, regression testing stuff
> like coff), then submit the patches one at a time to the
> symtab maintainers.
>
> Is this something worth pursuing?
I think it's worth pursuing. For large applications, a 20% savings in
space could mean the difference between being able to easily debug the
app and running out of memory (or running into swap).
Kevin