[TCLCORE] Re: PROPOSAL: use realloc when growing strings

[John O. <ou...@aj...>]

I vote yes.

At 10:30 PM 8/31/2000 -0700, Brent Welch wrote:
>I think most would agree that using the system realloc() procedure instead
>of manually doing an alloc and copy.  The performance numbers shown by
>Eric showed that using realloc accounted for significant performance
>improvements, enough to justify a change.
>
>If there are major objections, please speak up.  Otherwise someone ought
>to formulate a simple patch that we should adopt.  If there are objections
>then we can call a vote on this issue. Otherwise, my take from the
>discussions is that folks are behind using realloc().
>
>I'd rather not have to vote on every core change so long as there is
>general concensus.  If I am off base here, again, please speak up.
>Perhaps its just as easy to hear a "yes" vote from everyone.
>
>My vote is yes.
>
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