Re: Curious... on readline history patch -- round up memory allocs?

[L. A. Walsh]

Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> I think this is unnecessary, malloc (either the bash malloc in
> lib/malloc/malloc.c or the libc provided malloc) should already take
> care of requesting memory in page sized chunks.
>
> At least that's what I see here (morecore function):
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/lib/malloc/malloc.c?h=devel&id=216e2e9b8ba21fff677cf7794ef3d9af8c91d46d#n622
>
> Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing to gain from optimizing
> on top of xmalloc/malloc.
>   
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That's fine -- I was just reading the comment about how 4.4 changed
history allocs to optimize memory reallocs and movement.  So if things
were fine with malloc before, I'm not sure why they were optimized
within bash in 4.4...?