Eric S. Raymond personal blog
The Lost Art of C Structure Packing
This page is about a technique for reducing the memory footprint of programs in compiled languages with C-like structures - manually repacking these declarations for reduced size. To read it, you will require basic knowledge of the C programming language.
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- 335
- HN comments
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- 21 commenters
Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2014
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2014 | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing by Tsiolkovsky | 335 | 143 |
| Feb 18, 2015 | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing by tadasv | 284 | 113 |
| Apr 27, 2022 | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (2014) by isaacimagine | 159 | 153 |
| Nov 4, 2017 | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing by uyoakaoma | 123 | 49 |
| Aug 5, 2016 | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (2014) by bramv | 117 | 112 |
| Apr 27, 2020 | The Lost Art of Structure Packing (2018) by theastrowolfe | 112 | 112 |
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