[mkgmap-dev] Patch to reduce memory usage by interning strings.

Thu Oct 20 22:45:27 BST 2011

On 20/10/11 19:57, Kristen Eisenberg wrote:
> On 31/03/10 14:56, Scott A Crosby wrote:
>  > I noticed that mkgmap does not intern any strings. In particular, this
>
> This is true. There is a pending patch that deals with excessive
> memory use in a slightly different way which is on the style-speed
> branch, with a pre-built one available at the bottom of the mkgmap
> download page.

That branch was merged to trunk quite some time ago.  There was also a
change to intern the string tag values.  So now there are no
duplicates in either the tag keys or values... Unless there is a new
bug?

..Steve