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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
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Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:14:16 +0200
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>>>>> "Hyman" == Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

Hyman> I have had the experience of needing to run text utilities on
Hyman> an ordinary text file which happened to have lines which were
Hyman> several hundred thousand characters long. No utility author
Hyman> would ever have specified such a large limit.

If the author had allocated his strings on the stack rather than doing
it explicitely himself (look at the code, I bet that it called
realloc() a lot of time while processing long lines), the program had
surely crashed.

I am not for arbitrary limits. I am for responsive (and
user-controlled) allocation of dynamic memory.

  Sam
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