dooooooooooooooooooalllllllllocccccccccccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, damnit

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:54:27 -0700, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:51 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> >On July 23, 2004 12:40 pm, you wrote:
> > > At 11:54 AM 7/23/2004 -0400, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> > > >On July 23, 2004 11:42 am, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > > > > Why do we need one extra byte?
> > > >
> > > >We do not.
> > > >
> > > > > Anyway, the question is if we should return to alloca() or not. I am
> > > > > slightly in favor but don't feel very strongly about it.
> > > >
> > > >Perhaps we could try a combination of the two, to ensure that no script is
> > > >terminated due to a PHP crash if allocating on the stack fails. By default
> > > > we can use alloca() if that fails to allocate the memory, we could use
> > > > emalloc() and set a flag free code indicating which free function should
> > > > be used.
> > >
> > > I'm hesitant to slow down the general case (even if it's just an additional
> > > if()) statement. I'd revert to alloca() and we can always add a
> > > --paranoid-stack-allocation directive to configure to use emalloc() :)
> >
> >The problem is that that this causes certain large script to just crash,
> >without any meaningful information. Is the cost of 2 if()s really that
> >pefromance prohibitive?
> 
> No it's not. But 2 and 2 and 2 is :)
> I guess we can go with the if()'s for now.... Argh...
> Want to write a patch?
> 
> 
> 
> Andi
> 
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