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Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines
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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