On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:31:04PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm thinking to disable the hash table in the .mo files. It's not used > in Grub Kernel and it makes the size 10% bigger: > > In a 473 sentences po file with hash it's 30633 bytes and without 28109, > so it 's not a big difference. > > Do we want to disable or it's just some KB in /boot/grub and we don't > really mind? > > Explanation: the .mo files has a hash table (by default) but gettext > grub module is not using the hash table (it does search by bisection). > > Why? > a) code simpler and smaller > b) for the number of strings the speed is not a big difference* > c) less space used in /boot/grub/locale
Makes sense for .mo files that we use in GRUB, but what about the system-wide .mo file, which is used by GRUB utilities? I assume gettext takes advantage of this hash table. Is it possible to strip the hash table when installing .mo files to /boot/grub ? (Btw, our scripts don't install .mo files to /boot yet, currently user has to do this manually) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
