Fwd: Re: Re: PHP 5.1 roadmap

Still behind a bit on my email. Has anyone tested this yet? It would be
cool to commit.

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From: Sascha Schumann sascha@schumann.cx
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1 roadmap
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The specific case I had was serializing an array containing a whole
bunch of arrays representing the data from tables in a database. I
don't recall how many rows there were, but the serialized data was
around 5 MB. This was on windows, and feels like realloc doing
over-time, so a fix could be something as simple as tweaking the
smart_str chunking code; start with a fair initial size and perhaps
having it double the size on each realloc.

The default values you find inside php_smart_str.h are tuned
for efficient usage of the engine's allocator.  They are not
tuned for huge real-world usage.

The attached patch should change that for var.c.

- Sascha