Hi Bruce,
indeed a minor improvement, but that sounds absolutely right, those
data tables are never updated,
Applied and pushed:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8f57103793e1e1b1be478f1feb607d19d725d048
thanks a lot,
Daniel
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 03:00:20PM -0800,
I blogged about the importance of adding const in order to get best results
here:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/add-a-const-here-delete-a-const-there/
Some of the post talks about a VC++ compiler bug - ignore that.
Note that having constant data in the read-only data segment is a
The constant array xmlUnicodeBlocks is not marked as 'const' so it ends up
in the read/write data segment instead of the read-only data segment, which
can lead to it becoming per-process private data instead of image-backed
shared data.
A patch file (made in the context of Chrome, but it should
