* De: Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-07-07 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: the incredible shrinking socket ]
>
> 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?
If you're going to do that why not just end the struct with
char foo[1];
And overlay the unique bits at the end?
Or do we already use storage there?
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