drop stored StringItems in favor of in-memory mappings

Strings like Section names or architectures are needed vary often.
Instead of writing them each time we need them, we deploy sharing for
these special strings. Until now, this was done with a linked list of
strings in which we would search, which was stored in the cache.
It turns out we can do this just as well in memory as well with a bunch
of std::map's.

In memory means here that it isn't available anymore if we have a partly
invalid cache, but that isn't much of a problem in practice as the
status file is compared to the other files we parse very small and includes
mostly duplicates, so the space we would gain by storing is more or less
equal to the size of the stored linked list…

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.h b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.h
index f5ac47e1e..b55e57d41 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.h
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ class debListParser : public pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser
    std::vector<std::string> Architectures;
    bool MultiArchEnabled;
 
-   map_stringitem_t UniqFindTagWrite(const char *Tag);
    virtual bool ParseStatus(pkgCache::PkgIterator &Pkg,pkgCache::VerIterator &Ver);
    bool ParseDepends(pkgCache::VerIterator &Ver,const char *Tag,
 		     unsigned int Type);