From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: 20% space savings!
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030819182857.ZM31398@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> "20% space savings!" (Aug 19, 2:14pm)
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 18:14 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-08-19 18:29 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2003-08-19 18:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-08-20 16:29 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-08-20 17:09 ` User defined commands jacques
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