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reduce memory footprint for struct fields #27

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@cia-rana cia-rana commented Dec 5, 2023

There is no memory allocation by the zero-sized type (ZST) field itself, but the footprint of the struct may increase depending on the order in which struct fields are defined. In fact, the sample code below shows an increase of 8 bytes.

https://go.dev/play/p/fsAXJ17soKK

So reorder the fields to save the footprint.

ref. golang/go#58483 (comment)

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Code-Hex commented Dec 6, 2023

@cia-rana Thank you so much!

@Code-Hex Code-Hex merged commit 30c0707 into Code-Hex:main Dec 6, 2023
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