Re: LYNX-DEV wasting of memory

[Foteos Macrides]

Hans Reiser <address@hidden> wrote:
>I have a problem with lynx V2.6, which leads to unreasonable huge 
>requirement of memory.  [...]

        v2.6FM update:
        
01-10-97
* Replaced the realloc() in split_line() of GridText.c with a calloc(),
  memcpy(), FREE() sequence for all systems, not just AIX and ultrix,
  based on analysis of memory wastage by Hans Reiser
  (address@hidden). - FM
* Tweaks of the body= handling in mailto URLs. - FM
* Tweaks of the ftp gateway. - FM
* Restored inheritence when resolving versus a base with the same scheme,
  because the RFC1808 and Fielding Draft behavior of not doing so yields
  too many failures in the real world (sigh...). - FM


        That fix makes a *substantial* difference.  Good find, Hans!!!!
All these years Lynx has been tying up a KByte of memory per line of
cached document, even for lines with nothing in them (vertical spacers).
The high multi-user Lynx sites should incorporate that fix ASAP.

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