From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8401: removing duplication and improving the readlink code Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:38:14 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4D994B36.6050909@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4D9574F2.20108@cs.ucla.edu> <83vcyypdzy.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9620CC.4000806@cs.ucla.edu> <83hbahyd64.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9630F2.1010806@cs.ucla.edu> <838vvty9il.fsf@gnu.org> <4D968284.1000009@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301893654 14922 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 05:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 05:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8401@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 07:07:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6c0g-0005CP-4n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:07:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6c0f-0003Nn-Ea for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42302 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6c0R-0003Lb-Sj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6c0Q-0002Pn-V5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6c0Q-0002PP-TS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6bZ8-0005Yh-7C; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:39:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8401 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8401-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8401.130189191021325 (code B ref 8401); Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8401) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2011 04:38:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6bYc-0005Xu-16 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6bYY-0005Xg-SI for 8401@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10DA39E80F9; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:38:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XTeoPjzikmFX; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72D8539E80B1; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 21:38:20 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:39:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45611 Archived-At: 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.