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Re: [PATCH] read-file: Avoid memory reallocations with seekable files.


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read-file: Avoid memory reallocations with seekable files.
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:04:10 +0000
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On 13/12/10 17:50, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/13/10 02:09, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> * Keep allocation to multiples of BUFSIZ which may be more efficient
> 
> I don't see how the patch accomplishes this.
> If alloc starts off being BUFSIZ, and the assignment
> "alloc = alloc + alloc / 2" does not keep the allocation
> to a multiple of BUFSIZ.  Also, for regular files alloc
> might start off being an odd number.
> 

Oops right, I had dropped some code but
forgot to drop the description.

Thanks for the review.

cheers,
Pádraig.



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