{"id":8313,"date":"2014-01-16T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8313"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:36:16","slug":"the-lost-art-of-c-structure-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/the-lost-art-of-c-structure-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Art of C Structure Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/structure-packing\/\">The Lost Art of C Structure Packing<\/a> (by <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5193\">Eric Raymond<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/structure-packing\/\"><p>There are ways to reduce memory usage significantly in situations like this, by rearranging the order of structure members in careful ways. This can lead to dramatic gains - in my case I was able to cut the working-set size by around 40%, enabling the program to handle much larger repositories without dying.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (by Eric Raymond): There are ways to reduce memory usage significantly in situations like this, by rearranging the order of structure members in careful ways. This can lead to dramatic gains - in my case I was able to cut the working-set size by around 40%, enabling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,138,71],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c","tag-optimization","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}