Re: zsh and memory

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Dec 16, 10:56am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh and memory
}
} [...] I looked who was using lots of heap memory and found the
} tokstr handling in lex.c. There we always allocate at least 256 bytes
} and if the buffer needs expanding (in add()) in gets resized to
} inbufct (or larger). Some more investigation showed that we almost
} never need a tokstr with more than 32 bytes, so I changed that.  I also 
} changed add() to be more careful when expanding the buffer -- I left
} the old code conditioned out because I don't kno if there was a reason 
} to resize it to inbufct bytes; I at least don't see a reason for that.

Probably the idea was to eliminate lots of small allocations in the
event that the "token" is a long quoted string or the like, for speed.
We should watch out for performance problems if those changes are kept.

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