[webkit-dev] JS binding wapper pointers: inline vs. separate hash table

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:06:19AM -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Mike Belshe wrote:
>>>>                           Total size           Potential savings
>>>> www.cnn.com:                   43M
>>>> 410Kwww.facebook.com:
>>>>            43M                     408K
>>>> www.slashdot.org:              36M                     208K
>>>> m.ext.google.com:              45M                     475K
>>>> docs (normal doc):             42M                     341K
>>>> docs (big spreadsheet):        55M                     905K
>>>> maps:                          38M                     159K
>>>
>>> It would be interesting to have the figures on 64-bit systems.
>>
>> The extra space is all pointers so the size cost would double.
>
> Sure, but what would be interesting is the comparison with the total
> size, which isn't 100% pointers.

Yes, the total cost would likely less than double. The DOM is mostly  
pointers, the render tree is maybe half pointers, and image data would  
not change size at all. So proportionately, it would be more expensive  
on 64-bit.

Regards,
Maciej