Re: [xml] too many mallocs?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:30:17PM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> Daniel, All,
>
> > > And there are 37 mallocs of size 3944 in case 1, compared with
> > > 62 mallocs of size 3900 in case 2, most likely from xmlInputBufferGrow.
> >
> >   I think Garry Pennington looked at this recently.
>
> I now think I know what's causing this, but I don't have a clean patch yet.
>
> Once we are within INPUT_CHUNK near the end of file, 
> xmlParserInputGrow and xmlParserInputBufferGrow will
> be called from every GROW (and always report they can
> read zero bytes).

  is that with the CVS version ?

> For a test I appended 2*INPUT_CHUNK of '\0' to the input buffer
> in xmlParserInputGrow once xmlParserInputBufferGrow
> returns zero. This eliminates further calls and mallocs,
> but I assume it will break quite a lot (when more than
> one entity is parsed).

  Okay, there is some cleanup to be done then <grin/>

Daniel

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