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From: dewar@gnat.com
To: guerby@acm.org, zack@codesourcery.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: The bloat sweepstakes...
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 15:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011007222105.AF45FF28AE@nile.gnat.com> (raw)

<<Surely there's some form of dynamic allocation you could use for this,
though.  Or just not buffering the file in such huge chunks?  C stdio
tends to use buffers on the order of a memory page...
>>

Would this really gain? Are there really systems so messed up that large
unused buffers like this cost real disk space or real memory?

             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-07 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-07 15:21 dewar [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-08 10:07 dewar
2001-10-08 11:04 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-08 10:03 dewar
2001-10-08 10:01 dewar
2001-10-07 15:24 dewar
2001-10-07 15:16 dewar
2001-10-08  9:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-07 10:25 Zack Weinberg
2001-10-07 10:44 ` guerby
2001-10-07 11:26   ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-07 11:44     ` guerby
2001-10-07 12:43       ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-07 14:42         ` guerby
2001-10-09 23:24 ` Fergus Henderson
2001-10-10 15:09   ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-10 23:03     ` Fergus Henderson
2001-10-10 23:46       ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-19  9:43     ` law
2001-10-22  0:39       ` Zack Weinberg
2001-10-22  8:28         ` law
2001-10-22 15:01           ` Richard Henderson

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