From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: size of emacs executable after unicode merge Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:16 -0500 Message-ID: <87hc6eswsj.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <482D8435.6060407@gnu.org> <20081030101819.GA15223@orion.lan> <200810311507.m9VF7EAl022755@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <873ai7t7fx.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87y6zuluxt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200811090629.mA96TuV4023397@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <1226282157.5753.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226378245 5138 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2008 04:37:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:37:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emanuele.giaquinta@gmail.com, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , evilborisnet@netscape.net, jasonr@gnu.org To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 05:38:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kzl1E-00064V-8K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:38:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzl06-00036w-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzl02-00036m-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzl00-00036O-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53378 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kzl00-00036L-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:45279) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kzkzw-0001Pu-ET; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E342157E1D6; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:37:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1226282157.5753.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> (Thomas Lord's message of "Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:55:57 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105555 Archived-At: Thomas Lord writes: > Are the tables in question represented as flat arrays that are "sparse" > in the sense of mostly containing homogeneous sets of values at roughly > page-sized chunks? If so, why not just compress them a bit (e.g., make > them shallow trees). We do employ a strategy of this sort, I think.