On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> The changes are:
> - I moved the _generate_spans_until_match() method (that is included in
> perhaps half of all DT::TZ's, and is a largish piece of code) to
> TimeZone. This saves about 100kB.
>
> - I changed the format of the dst changes, from
>
> {
> 'short_name' => 'LMT',
> 'utc_end' => '57875470828',
> 'utc_start' => DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY,
> 'local_end' => '57875472000',
> 'is_dst' => 0,
> 'offset' => 1172,
> 'local_start' => DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY
> },
>
> to
>
>
> ['LMT','57875470828',DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY,'57875472000',0,1172,DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY]
>
> This may make the generated file more obfuscated, but it does make a
> difference of 2Mb. (And I find the new format clearer in a way: it is
> easier to get an overview of all the changes.)
This is a good start, but it didn't go far enough ;)
You still have it turning those array refs back to hash refs. Might as
well just go for it and use arrays internally. It's faster and uses less
memory.
Anyway, I think I've got that done.
-dave
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