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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8401@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8401: removing duplication and improving the readlink code
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:38:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D994B36.6050909@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4o6f47aq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On 04/03/2011 09:41 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> In which way does it make it smaller?  Do you mean the source code
> exclusing the gnulib imported modues, or do you really mean
> the executable?

I meant less memory used at runtime, because a patched
Emacs typically skips a malloc when it reads a link.
(The non-gnulib source code also shrinks.)  These effects
are both minor, of course.





      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01  6:47 bug#8401: removing duplication and improving the readlink code Paul Eggert
2011-04-01  8:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 19:00   ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-01 19:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 20:09       ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-01 20:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-02  1:57           ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-03 16:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04  4:38               ` Paul Eggert [this message]

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