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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] abspath.c: use PATH_MAX in real_path_internal()
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:45:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbnsmobsq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53C85625.6020808@gmail.com> (Karsten Blees's message of "Fri, 18 Jul 2014 01:03:01 +0200")

Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail•com> writes:

> Am 17.07.2014 14:45, schrieb Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy:
>> e.g. "git init". Make it static too to reduce stack usage.
>
> But wouldn't this increase overall memory usage? Stack memory
> will be reused by subsequent code, while static memory cannot
> be reused (but still increases the process working set).

Correct.  And this is a function that is not involved in deep
recursion, so avoiding stack allocation seems quite misguided.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-18 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17 12:45 [PATCH] abspath.c: use PATH_MAX in real_path_internal() Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-07-17 17:05 ` René Scharfe
2014-07-17 18:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-17 23:03   ` Karsten Blees
2014-07-18 10:49     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-07-18 15:08       ` René Scharfe
2014-07-19 12:51         ` Duy Nguyen
2014-07-20  0:29       ` Karsten Blees
2014-07-20  8:00         ` René Scharfe
2014-07-21  2:25           ` Jeff King
2014-07-18 11:32     ` René Scharfe
2014-07-19 23:55       ` Karsten Blees
2014-07-20 11:17         ` René Scharfe
2014-07-17 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-07-17 23:02   ` Karsten Blees
2014-07-17 23:03 ` Karsten Blees
2014-07-18 16:45   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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