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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A small change to ELM memory allocation...
Message-ID: <94@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 00:01:39 GMT
References: <772@aber-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
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In article <772@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
:In Elm 1.7 there is a table of all headers in the mailbox, called
:"header_table", that is realloc'ed to increase its size whenever
:the number of headers increases.
:
:It would help a lot, and impact performance minimally, or actually
:probably increse it, to allocate a table of POINTERS to
:headers, even with a pretty large initial size, and then allocate the
:headers one by one within it.
Our own use of 286 type systems within the group has already forced
a similar change.

PS, its too late to ask for changes to be in 2.2, the freeze date
for 'changes' was 3/1/89.  All change requests are now for 2.3.
2.2 is in the final stages of bug shakeout.


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