Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> This means that not including the VT subsystem resulted in a 128k 
> reduction in runtime footprint, and having only half the number of VT's 
> resulted in a 52k reduction.  Assuming a linear correlation between the 
> number of VT's and the runtime footprint of the subsystem, that means 
> the subsystem itself incurs 26k of overhead, and each VT incurs 
> approximately 1.6k of overhead.

Doesn't seem an unreasonable value - so yes you've made an argument for
dynamically allocating the vt structures when they are first referenced.

Alan
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