Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Re: question on TLV

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From: Mark Pilant <Mark.Pilant@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:46:40 -0400
> Because caches and main memory aren't as big as we'd like?  If you
have 
> a lot of instances of a data structure, using fields big enough to
hold 
> the values it needs to, but no bigger (except perhaps for rounding up
to 
> a multiple of 8 bits) can reduce the cache and main memory footprint
of 
> the code.

True.  I guess this all just points out there is still the need for
compromise in the design to try and address the (many times conflicting)
requirements.

- Mark