[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 24891] WebCore can be 600K smaller

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Sat Mar 28 11:43:24 PDT 2009


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24891





------- Comment #4 from ddkilzer at webkit.org  2009-03-28 11:43 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> I would expect memory-constrained platforms to just strip the binary of all
> method names, for a much bigger win. 

Objective-C method names can't be stripped, though, and some selectors in
Objective-C++ source code (which include C++-mangled type names) are multiple
*kilobytes*--for a single selector.  That's where the benefit lies for this
change.


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