Am 29.03.2015 um 23:52 schrieb Richard Henderson:
No decrease in boot time is good. We /know/ we're saving memory, after all.
Well, I would not mind a decrease in boot time, too. The more it decreases, the better. :-) To be honest: in my version I only used 1 bit bitfield entries for boolean values, but 8 bit values (aligned on byte boundaries) for other values because as far as I know, most (all?) cpu architectures will need more time to extract some bits from a machine word than to extract a byte. I have no idea whether this makes a difference in performance as I did not run any runtime benchmark. Stefan
