Re: Interesting thing about "recent" changes in GHashTable

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

Anyone building with a new enough glib will get this behaviour for free? So
I don't think it's worth backporting to older builds unless the memory
savings are really significant...

Very neat optimization though.


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Jakub Zawadzki
<darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looking for some stuff in glib sources, I had found that glib 2.30[1] has
> nice feature of GHashTable.
> If we pass the same pointer as key and value, memory usage is cut down by
> 1/3 (cool!).
>
> Implementation of it would be a little hacky, but maybe worthy?
>
>
> [1] Exactly speaking of this commit:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/glib/ghash.c?id=be991170fa99185b7cf1dbf3f9bc62c9d656a08a
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