On Dec 8, 2007 1:52 PM, Scott McKellar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These patches tidy up a few things and introduce a modest performance
boost. Summary:
Applied.
As an aside, I think Bill's design inside the parser was to model a
SAX parser, which would allow for construction of differently
Scott McKellar wrote:
I've never used a SAX-style parser, but as I understand it, the idea
is to parse the data stream incrementally, and respond to syntactic
features as you encounter them. The alternative DOM-style approach
is to load the whole thing into memory at once in some kind of data
This patch provides a faster implementation of buffer_add_char().
It also replaces malloc() with calloc() in safe_calloc(), and removes
the memset(). The behavior should be identical, but there is a chance
that calloc() will be trivially more efficient, depending on how the
standard library is
On Dec 9, 2007 7:04 PM, Scott McKellar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch provides a faster implementation of buffer_add_char().
Applied.
[snip]
I have three further suggestions for the handling of growing_buffers.
I didn't want to make these changes on my own without discussion.
1.
