On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Yehezkel Horowitz wrote:

> Currently each easy handle has its own 2 buffers with fixed size of 16K.
>
> This enforces the application that uses libcurl to copy the data when the
> callbacks are called, since it will not be valid after the callback return.

I understand perfectly.

My point was rather: if you replace libcurl's static 16K allocation with it
always asking the application to alloc 16K for each chunk that might come,
then there's no gain in memory use...

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