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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sideband.c: Use xmalloc() instead of variable-sized arrays.
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:26:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4784772A.1060704@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v4pdotdtl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>> @@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ int recv_sideband(const char *me, int in_stream, int out, int err)
>>  {
>>  	unsigned pf = strlen(PREFIX);
>>  	unsigned sf = strlen(SUFFIX);
>> -	char buf[pf + LARGE_PACKET_MAX + sf + 1];
>> +	char *buf, *save;
>> +
>> +	save = xmalloc(sf);
>> +	buf = xmalloc(pf + LARGE_PACKET_MAX + sf + 1);
> 
> I have to wonder if the malloc() overhead is small enough
> compared to the network bandwidth to make a two malloc-free
> pairs per packet a non-issue...

recv_sideband() is called _once_per_connection_ and not for each packet.
Hence, these two mallocs should not concern us.

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08 16:24 [PATCH 1/2] sideband.c: Use xmalloc() instead of variable-sized arrays Johannes Sixt
2008-01-08 17:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-09  7:34   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-09  7:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-09  8:06       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-09 19:14       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-08 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-08 19:59   ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-08 20:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-08 20:44       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-09  7:26   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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