Le vendredi 15 février 2008 à 01:21 +0100, Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
> Hi!,

Hi!

> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:31 +0100, Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> > Le mercredi 13 février 2008 à 18:09 +0100, Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
> > > Hi!,
> > > 
> > > This was just a heads up to these three bugs:
> > > 
> > > #513692 : This one just packs booleans in guints, so it should improve
> > > size in most used structs.
> > 
> > Is it so interesting to save some bytes this way?
> > 
> > In tracker-utils, this patch will replace 25 gbooleans with 25 "uint:1".
> > If I assume that gboolean is a typedef of gint and that gint uses 4
> > bytes, this patch will save (25*4)-25 = 75 bytes (perhaps a little bit
> > more but IMHO not much more because we use pointers everywhere and we
> > take care of memory allocations).
> > So we would prefer to write some weird things (using of unsigned int
> > instead of booleans) to save ~75 bytes?
> 
> There are several copies of such structures during all the application
> lifetime, so if you save for example 16 bytes (5 gboolean = 20 bytes, 1
> guint = 4 bytes) in one structure, having say 100 of these structures
> around saves you already 1600 bytes. To me it's a no brainer trying to
> get used to do such effortless improvements as you code.
> 
> > 
> > Another question: why glib does use a typedef of gint instead of a
> > typedef of "guint:1" for its booleans?
> 
> This is only applicable to structs and unions, and the define would have
> to get like:
> 
> #define gboolean(var) guint (var) : 1
> 
> quite weird for a data type.
> 
> > 
> > > #513691 : a similar improvement to #511788 (already committed) in a
> > > different function.
> > 
> > +   res = g_ptr_array_sized_new (100);
> > 
> > What is "100"?!
> 
> Perhaps should have done a #define for that :), it's just a good enough
> default value, so the array has a sensible initial size, and it doesn't
> need too frequent reallocations when the array grows at first.

Thanks for all these explanations, I'm less stupid now!  :-)


Laurent.

> Regards,
>   Carlos
> 
> 

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