Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] Optimize the order of struct members

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 22-08-18 om 01:46 schreef Devin Hussey:
> I meant to submit this a while ago, it had been bugging me.

Too many things in a single patch.  One issue, one patch.  And
please stop sending HTML mail.

> - Reorder members to reduce padding and wasted RAM, most noticeable on x64

How much memory is saved?  When all syntaxes are included and nano
has opened all src/*.c files.

> - Put links first so foo->next is a simple dereference

Is next really the most used element in all the structures?  I would
think that for the linestruct it would be the data element.

> - Shrink pairnum to a short (ncurses uses a short for this as well)

This might be a good idea.  Separate patch, please.

> - Replace rex_flags with a bool called ignore_case. This prevents using an
>   entire word boundary in x64.

Using a word boundary?  What do you mean?

> - long is an unreliable type, replace it with int.

What do you mean with "unreliable type"?

Benno

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