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 ?