On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:45 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:13:55AM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > Are we still planning to completely replace termcap with > > ncurses in Fedora? > > > > While I welcome reducing the number of dupe packages, I'm > > worried by the impact of this change on the size and > > performance of many core programs. > > > > libncurses is much bigger than libtermcap, and also has > > oddly large .bss and .data sections: > > > > bender:/[1/0]# size /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 319006 56608 3592 379206 5c946 /lib64/libncurses.so.5 > > 10483 788 112 11383 2c77 /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 > > > > this is going to impact very negatively on the RSS of several > > critical programs such as bash and python. > > The really big writable section how much of that would be missing const ? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
