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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:29:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
        "20% space savings!" (Aug 19,  2:14pm)
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To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: 20% space savings!
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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