Switching to ncurses
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.
I'm also worried that the overall time required spent for a
fork may increase considerably.
But maybe ncurses can easily be fixed to avoid global data and
buffers?
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