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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
February 4, 2006 04:50
Subject:
Re: possibly (tiny) size saving idea
Message ID:
43E4A354.4090108@gmail.com
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 08:04:38PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>> Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes:
>>> As far as I can tell, the rest of the code won't notice if that array is
>>> malloc()ed and resized as needed. From what I remember, that would add no
>>> significant complexity to the code.
>> It is global so that all threads and pseudo-forks can see it.
>> It isn't malloc-ed just because the Win32/PerlHost "per-thread" malloc
>> got in the way. It is possible that the global malloc pool could be used.
> 
> Well, I committed it as change 27059, so lets see if it works.

Excellent!  Your next task, should you choose to accept it, is to cut
down the size of the yacc tables... :-)

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