Iam still poking around
So far i found that Transfer() has a buffer, scratch of size 1024*50*2 (100k).
In the UrlState struct there is a buffer of size (1024*50 + 1) (50k)
I think these are the main culprits.
Regards
Bharath
Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, T. Bharath wrote:
>
> > The curllib uses large stack based buffers some of even 8k size.Now the
> > advantage is that we dont need to worry about deallocating them and no
> > memory leaks
>
> It is also usually much faster. Do you have any profiling data that points to
> where the biggest sinners are? I mean which functions.
>
> > Do you think Curl should use heapbased buffers and not stackbuffers
>
> I think curl should use a malloc() to alloc memory chunks that are "large".
> Only "small" memory buffers should be stack based.
>
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> Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2001-09-11