On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 02:29 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Since one of the main goals of the mmap cache effort is memory > reduction, would it make sense to apply (the parts that still > apply) the patch in 2638 to move some constant data like the > glyph<n> variables in fcglyphname.h from .data to .rodata ? It looks like most of that patch is still useful, although it doesn't entirely eliminate pointers. > Another interesting bug in this area is 2878, which complains that > all the FcCharSets in fcLangCharSets are stored in .data and cause > relocations, although they are not modified at runtime. It seems to me > that it should be possible to fix this by generating the charsets > in the form in which fc-cache stores them in the mmap cache, but I have > not been able to work out the details. I don't think we want to store them in the mmap cache itself, just use the mmap'able data structure to replace pointers with indices. -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20051014/25032856/attachment.pgp
