Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 07/01/2015 02:22 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> To eliminate the temptation for clients to look up types by name >> (which are not ABI), replace all type names by meaningless strings. >> >> Reduces output of query-schema by 9 out of 80KiB. > > Among other things, it replaced all instances of 'str' with ':acg', and > all instances of 'int' with ':adu' (at least for the qapi-schema.json > files at the point in qemu.git that I tested on); if you were to tweak > things to NOT rename builtin types (limiting the renaming to just object > and array types), you'd save even more space and make libvirt's life > easier by not masking builtin types. (Yes, the 'meta-type':'builtin' > entry for 'str' should still be present whether or not we hide the name > 'str', but knowing the small set of builtin names up front and only > having to chase objects and arrays seems a bit more efficient)
You're right, hiding builtin types is pointless, they're ABI.
