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Re: 20% space savings!


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?

This will definitly help short term. Long term, to abuse an ad, "While amazing, it's not sensational[sp?]". As David and Elena work through an overhaul of the symbol table and a better understanding of what it really needs to do is gained, a more radical approach can be taken.


Andrew



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