From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Joe Simmons-Talbott <josimmon@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vfprintf-internal: Replace alloca with malloc.
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 13:07:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ddf10d7-e084-6530-c143-f1691870e863@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230517194156.GH176347@oak>
On 2023-05-17 12:41, Joe Simmons-Talbott wrote:
> It seems to me that the code to grow the scratch buffer would be more
> difficult to understand than calling malloc separately.
True, but in the normal case this means malloc will not be called (as
the data will live in a small scratch buffer on the stack), and that's a
win worth striving for.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-17 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-15 18:50 Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-05-17 18:08 ` Paul Eggert
2023-05-17 18:53 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2023-05-17 19:41 ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-05-17 20:07 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2023-05-17 21:32 ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
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