Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:39:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the incredible shrinking socket Message-ID: <20020707143846.A13771-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20020707083710.GM97638@elvis.mu.org>
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Some time ago I noticed that there appeared to be several members > of struct socket that were either only used by listen sockets or > only used by data sockets. > > I've taken a stab at unionizing the members and we wind up saving > 28 bytes per socket on i386, and probably nearly double that on > any 64 bit platform. That's ~15%, which isn't too shabby. Unions are ooogly. Would it be possible to seperate listen-only structures out into a seperate struct instead with a pointer to it? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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