Comment # 4
on bug 8331
from Lori Tribble
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi Lori, thanks for the patch. I changed it in r47675 to use 256-byte
> chunks, since that is a power of two and does better things for the memory
> allocator.
>
> Tangentially, why are we breaking it into such small chunks? Were there
> cases where a large string was being used and causing problems? It would be
> simpler to just grab the entire thing once rather than looping through
> chunks of it...
>
> Michael, the other MIN calls don't seem related to me.
Evan, I don't know why the code is splitting it into chunks. I figured there
must have been a reason to do it this way so I left it. I agree that the 256
sounds like a better number. Thanks.
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