Rod,
I think this is a great idea. I hope you can land it soon...
(BTW: have you looked outside of Layout to see if there is benefit there
as well?)
- marc
Rod Spears wrote:
> I did some analysis on WinNT and discovered no increase in size when
> using the macro NS_GET_IID (which uses templates) over statically
> defining the IID using the macro NS_DEFINE_IID. And as you might expect,
> getting rid of statically defined IIDs does save some space.
>
> The size analysis was done with a non-debug build.
>
> I have a small app that has scrubbed all the source in layout and
> removed all NS_DEFINE_IID macros where they could be replaced by
> directly inserting NS_GET_IID(<class name>).
>
> This is good for these reasons:
>
> 1) More code now uses a more standard calling convention
> 2) Unneeded NS_DEFINE_IID have been removed
> 3) Some size reduction
>
> I have filed a bug:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61274
>
> The diffs can be viewed with NS 6 at:
> http://www.cableone.net/rnspears/getiid/index.html
>
>
> Rod
