[xz-devel] Memory usage limits again

2011-11-28 Thread Lasse Collin
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

Re: [xz-devel] xz startup time for small files

2011-11-28 Thread Lasse Collin
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