Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v2 47/47] qapi-introspect: Hide type names

[Eric Blake]

On 07/01/2015 02:22 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> To eliminate the temptation for clients to look up types by name
> (which are not ABI), replace all type names by meaningless strings.
> 
> Reduces output of query-schema by 9 out of 80KiB.

Among other things, it replaced all instances of 'str' with ':acg', and
all instances of 'int' with ':adu' (at least for the qapi-schema.json
files at the point in qemu.git that I tested on); if you were to tweak
things to NOT rename builtin types (limiting the renaming to just object
and array types), you'd save even more space and make libvirt's life
easier by not masking builtin types.  (Yes, the 'meta-type':'builtin'
entry for 'str' should still be present whether or not we hide the name
'str', but knowing the small set of builtin names up front and only
having to chase objects and arrays seems a bit more efficient)

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature