On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:21:11 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Enlightenment > SVN<no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote: > > Log: > > * edje: Reduce sizeof (Edje_Calc_Params). > > > > Note: It doesn't really impact edje memory foot print yet. But in > > the plan to do a computation cache inside edje, this structure > > will be used a lot (I am planning to do this feature at some point, > > but no ETA yet, and be reassured it will be optionnal so we can > > choose between CPU load or memory load). > > > > Note: As I was looking for similar area of improvements, > > Edje_Part_Description could really use an union to reduce it's size, > > but as we load this structure directly from an Eet file, we need > > union in Eet first. And this should be part of a comming Edje file > > format break. > > Better than union is to have the single part in one structure and > specific bits in their own structure. Depending on how we do the Eet + > union support, we may think on how to do it to cover this case as > well. > > I'd say instead of allocate memory and fill it, one could give a > "type" value to user callback and then it would receive the correct > Eet_Data_Descriptor for that subtype. So union would return the data > descriptor with the same struct size for all types, while dynamic > would check (switch/case) which one to use, and return the fields > properly. > > This is likely to reduce memory consumption a lot because we often > have LOTS of rectangle that have almost no field, while we have very > few TEXT/TEXTBLOCK/GRADIENT that consume most memory. > > BTW, something that could improve memory there is using mempool. even mempool will fragment. it isnt necessarily a silver bullet. not allocating is better than anything else :) i am wondering if simple N structs with casting is best (and a common header in all for common members for all types). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
