GNU bug report logs - #8401
removing duplication and improving the readlink code

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 06:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 8401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 8401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8401: removing duplication and improving the readlink code
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:38:14 -0700

On 04/03/2011 09:41 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> In which way does it make it smaller?  Do you mean the source code
> exclusing the gnulib imported modues, or do you really mean
> the executable?

I meant less memory used at runtime, because a patched
Emacs typically skips a malloc when it reads a link.
(The non-gnulib source code also shrinks.)  These effects
are both minor, of course.
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