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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: the incredible shrinking socket
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Some time ago I noticed that there appeared to be several members
> of struct socket that were either only used by listen sockets or
> only used by data sockets.
>
> I've taken a stab at unionizing the members and we wind up saving
> 28 bytes per socket on i386, and probably nearly double that on
> any 64 bit platform.  That's ~15%, which isn't too shabby.

Unions are ooogly.  Would it be possible to seperate listen-only
structures out into a seperate struct instead with a pointer to it?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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