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Re: compacting _Jv_Utf8Const
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Adam Megacz <megacz at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:47:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: compacting _Jv_Utf8Const
- References: <40993F2A.2060408@bothner.com> <m1u0ys7fby.fsf@nowhere.com>
Adam Megacz wrote:
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
So the savings would be 3.5 bytes per name. Is that enough to be
worth while?
I'm more concerned about space wasteage that won't be removed by gzip
compression.
For embedded system we care about memory usage, not just download speed.
One could compare the meta-data in the core image, and "lazily" (when
needed) uncompress them, but I think that may be trickier to make work
well.
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