[PATCH 04/40] lib: Convert str_to_list() to use alist

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 04:17:32PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 14:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:31:48AM +0530, Sughosh Ganu wrote:
> >
> > > From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >
> > > Use this new data structure in the utility function.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  lib/strto.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
> > >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > This is rather big growth when we didn't already have realloc:
> > 05: lib: Convert str_to_list() to use alist
> >    aarch64: (for 1/1 boards) all +1765.0 rodata +37.0 text +1728.0
> >             xilinx_versal_mini_emmc0: all +1765 rodata +37 text +1728
> >                u-boot: add: 7/0, grow: 1/0 bytes: 1728/0 (1728)
> >                  function                                   old     new   delta
> >                  realloc                                      -    1120   +1120
> >                  alist_ensure_ptr                             -     140    +140
> >                  alist_expand_to                              -     136    +136
> >                  alist_init                                   -     108    +108
> >                  alist_uninit_move_ptr                        -      76     +76
> >                  alist_add_ptr                                -      72     +72
> >                  alist_uninit                                 -      48     +48
> >                  str_to_list                                204     232     +28
> 
> We can just drop this patch, perhaps? It was really just a demo of alist.

Yes, and no. The next good example would be on
cortina_presidio-asic-pnand where the reason this series is a size
growth rather than reduction (where it is BTW on LTO using platforms) is
again, realloc. Is this just an unfortunate given then?

-- 
Tom
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