Re: Static pools?

In message <20030308232656.A13671@lyra.org>
          Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:17:51PM +0000, Matthew Hambley wrote:
> >...
> > Simple. I want to create a mapping table which needs to exist between
> > calls to the interrogation function. This involves parsing a file. I
> > could parse the file every time the data needs to be interrogated (and
> > of course that is what I will need to do if there isn't space to build
> > the table) but that would require a lot of file access and a lot of
> > time. Better to do it as infrequently as possible.
>
> I'm not clear on why you don't just malloc the thing? If you want memory
> from the heap, and want it for the duration of the process, then just use
> malloc. I'm not sure that a pool will buy you anything.

Again, simple. I get a strong "malloc bad, apr_palloc good" vibe from this
project.

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