On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:14:21PM -0700, Juli Mallett wrote: > * 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?
Because that is even more oogly than a union. -- Jonathan Mini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
