L.D wrote:
>I didn't say DOS chose the size of the string. That's what the word
>"immaterial" means!
So is space trips, but I don't add them (too often anyway <g>) to my
messages. Ok, I missunderstood. But I must say I still don't get why you
mentioned something *that* irrelevant.
>[P.S. if "pipe burst" isn't the
>equivalent of "packets" then what is it??]
It isn't really the same thing since packets are sent over a (network)
socket which may not have a predetermind size.
>A number of us have, for a number of releases, asked why string lengths
>were still so limited and thus Arachne crippled. The response was
>always "it uses memory"; but in recent releases memory usage has
>dropped, so shouldn't there *finally* be room to store string lengths
>that we're running across on more and more websites???
That's up to Michael. With LSPPP there should be plenty of free
conventional memory for everyone so I think that it should get raised
sometime down the road (somewhere in 1.7x)
//Bernie
