Switching to ncurses
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Fri Dec 1 10:00:54 UTC 2006
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 ?
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