Re: Smart strings & memory allocation

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 09:21, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > SS>> Common referred to real applications, not 'make test'. > > Do you have some data about real applications in PHP that use strings > longer than 80 bytes via smart strings? My tests show most of the strings > used are small. Looking at the clients of this functions and taking into > account that prontf's are usually small and long printf are usually or > rewritten into heredocs (which don't use smart strings) or separated into > different functions. > BTW, why do you think "make test" is a bad test of memory allocation > patterns? What do you propose as a better test? > Yep. cURL uses smart_str pretty extensively for reading data from the client. I have it alloc things in 4k chunks. -Sterling PS: I agree with your general pattern too. But I don't see where sascha's approach is limiting. I'll try reading again after coffee. :) -- "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea." - Unknown