Increase BUFSIZ to 8192
John-Mark Gurney
jmg at funkthat.com
Thu May 14 07:22:00 UTC 2015
Ian Lepore wrote this message on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:47 -0600:
> On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 11:13 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:34 -0700:
> > > The reason I ask about "why is it faster?" is because for embedded-y
> > > things with low RAM we may not want that to happen due to memory
> > > constraints. However, we may actually want to do some form of
> > > autotuning on some platforms.
> >
> > If you're already running a program, the difference between 1k and
> > 8k isn't significant... I'll give you 64k can be significant for
> > embedded-y platforms... But this goes back to the, we need a global
> > knob saying I want low memory usage, and I am willing to pay for it
> > in performance...
>
> It is NOT just a difference of 1K vs 8K. It's that much times however
> many BUFSIZ-sized things a program has allocated at once. It's where
> they are allocated. As I've already pointed out, BUFSIZ appears in the
> base code over 2000 times. Where is the analysis of the impact an 8x
> change is going to have on all those uses?
Since you apprently missed my original reply, I said that we shouldn't
abuse BUFSIZ for this work, and that it should be changed in mdXhl.c...
I agree that changing this size to effect all the other files is ill
advised and should not be done...
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