Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines

Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-06-24T15:46:31Z

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:31:16AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> A related idea that occurred to me is that, with Jan's type GC, we
> could detach types from objfiles and "intern" them (something like
> bcache-for-types). This would only be a win if there are many
> identical types distributed across objfiles, though.

There's plenty of identical types within a single objfile. Load GDB
with -readnow, and I find 66 copies of the typedef for "FILE", for
instance.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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