20% space savings!

[Andrew Cagney]

> 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