Messages in this thread | | | Date | 12 May 2004 08:00:07 +0200 | Date | Wed, 12 May 2004 08:00:07 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Sort kallsyms in name order: kernel shrinks by 30k |
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:16:56AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > A binary search as stands doesn't help much because we still need to > iterate through the names. We could do "address, nameindex" pairs, but > with stem compression we need to at least wade back some way to decode > the name.
Yes, but that iteration is bounded.
> > I have a 30-line static huffman decoder (from the IDE mini-oopser) which > we could use instead of stem compression, which we could combine with > "address, bitoffset" pairs which would be about 20k smaller and faster > than the current approach, but is it worth the trouble?
Probably not.
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