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 ?