From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <20011007222105.AF45FF28AE@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00519.html

<<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?