From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dewar@gnat.com
To: dewar@gnat.com, zack@codesourcery.com
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, guerby@acm.org
Subject: Re: The bloat sweepstakes...
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 10:03:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011008170258.4AFABF28B1@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00539.html

<<I don't have much sympathy with the attitude that memory, or even
address space, is free.  If nothing else, these huge buffers are
likely to be *slower* than more reasonably sized buffers because they
trash the memory caches.
>>

Ah, I think I see the point you were making. You are assuming that the
buffer will actually be used. Not at all, in practice only a very small
fraction will ever be used. It is there for unusual cases. Now your point
is that in these unusual cases, it might be better to have a circuit for
chopping things -- possibly -- but this still seems samll potatoes to me.