[PATCH] Compress common substrings in applet names to save space

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
<guille.rodriguez at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When strings are abbreviated the new find_applet_by_name() is about
>>> 34% slower than currently.  (All comparisons are for the default
>>> configuration.)
>>
>> Crazy :D
>
> Is this really worth it? 34% slower may have a visible impact if applets are
> executed frequently. And then there's the added complexity. All of that for
> just some 500 bytes ?

In busybox land, 500 bytes are not small.

However, I also think that this idea is slightly too insane...