Re: Switching to ncurses

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:45 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:13:55AM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > Are we still planning to completely replace termcap with
> > ncurses in Fedora?
> > 
> > While I welcome reducing the number of dupe packages, I'm
> > worried by the impact of this change on the size and
> > performance of many core programs.
> > 
> > libncurses is much bigger than libtermcap, and also has
> > oddly large .bss and .data sections:
> > 
> > bender:/[1/0]# size /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libtermcap.so.2
> >   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 319006   56608    3592  379206   5c946 /lib64/libncurses.so.5
> >  10483     788     112   11383    2c77 /lib64/libtermcap.so.2
> > 
> > this is going to impact very negatively on the RSS of several
> > critical programs such as bash and python.
> 
> The really big writable section

how much of that would be missing const ?