On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:54 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:42:50PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > one thing that will be good is that this version of gcc automatically > > detects that variables are never written to, and puts then in a special > > ELF section; the result is that shared libs and binaries share that > > memory between them instead of one for each app, and the total memory > > usage of fedora will go down a bit as a result! > > Errr.. sorry, but what are shared variables that no one ever writes > to exactly good for? it's mostly tables, for example an ascii to unicode conversion table. But there's dozens and dozens of tables in all kinds of shapes and forms. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
