On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Ed Allen Smith wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (on 25 June 2005 12:05:02 +0200), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Merijn Brand) wrote: > >On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:26:56 +0100, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Would it make sense to replace the hardwired 2048 file descriptor reference > >> count array (used in perlio.c, defined in perlvars.h) > > > >In in favour of lifting hard coded limits, but I'd not like that to cause > >speed concerns. How about a stic set of, say, 32 fd's, and the rest fully > >dynamic? > > Or the rest allocated 32 at a time?
I think that both would actually be slower than simply allocating a contiguous block that is big enough for the current highest known fd, and re-allocating the block if it proves to be too small. Nicholas Clark
