On Mon Mar 2 11:10 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote: > I don't see a fundamental issue why it could not be arbitrary. > The only challenge which may be an issue is that this code clearly > allocates the buffer on the stack for what are probably performance > reasons. If you allow arbitrary chunk size and use alloca() > (do_alloca()) for stack allocation you might kill the stack. > > I suggest you do some performance tests and if you need to keep it on > the stack then create some arbitrary limit like 8K and use stack below > that and use heap above that (code will be uglier). >
Thanks for the tips, it's on a todo list -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
