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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, syko@sykotik.org
Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc
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>Apache uses them quite frequently.  And this could make it very costly on
>large webservers.  Where I work, we have hundreds of connections to some
>of our webservers per minute.  We also use cgi scripts very frequently,
>and these use *env* functions quite frequently as well.  

The env functions are already costly.  They use dumb linear searches
and malloc(), and don't alloc a little more than necessary so that the
environment can grow a little without reallocation.  Garbage collection
need not be equally pessimal.

Bruce

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