Re: [Gaim-devel] Gaim and System Resources

[Tim R. <om...@ho...>]

Ethan Blanton wrote:

>I  started  a  massive  effort to move a lot of the strings used by both
>protocol plugins and the core into stringrefs, and that had a nontrivial
>net  savings  in  memory,  particularly  if  I used a de-duping table to
>ensure that no more than one stringref of a given value existed  at  any
>time.  However, there didn't seem to be a lot of interest from others in
>making sure this happened and the tree is now hopelessly out-of-date.  I
>bring  it  up  now  because it is an option for saving some real memory;
>things like buddy screen names and aliases wind up being duplicated  all
>over the place due to our gratuitous strdup/free habits.
>  
>
Really? I was under the impression you tried it some and found out it 
didn't really help much, and that that was the reason you didn't 
continue in the effort. Maybe I misunderstood something you said on IRC. 
Did the others get this impression as well? That would explain their 
lack of interest.

--Tim