Since this topic refuses to die, I would like to have a thread where
pros and cons about memory usage limits are explained in detail. I can
then tell people to read this thread first.
People have strong and conflicting opinions, and it's not possible to
make everyone happy. I'm not proposing any
On 2011-11-28 Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Lasse Collin dixit:
If xz does indeed know it needs a zero’d allocation and
can express that in page sizes (pretty non-portable),
_and_ has fallback code for mmap-less architectutes (e.g.
several POSIX-for-Windows systems or ancient OSes) then
sure. But