Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:47:45 +0000 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number |
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> This means that not including the VT subsystem resulted in a 128k > reduction in runtime footprint, and having only half the number of VT's > resulted in a 52k reduction. Assuming a linear correlation between the > number of VT's and the runtime footprint of the subsystem, that means > the subsystem itself incurs 26k of overhead, and each VT incurs > approximately 1.6k of overhead.
Doesn't seem an unreasonable value - so yes you've made an argument for dynamically allocating the vt structures when they are first referenced.
Alan
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