Re: New snapshots

From: Chris Jacobson (fear@technologist.com)
Date: 07/05/99


On 7/4/99 11:26 PM, George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org) stated:

>-- gg - db.c: Don't re-file_to_string_alloc() anything currently in
>        use by the pager.  It's the least impact change.  From
>        Andrey Fidrya <andrey@ALEX-UA.COM>

I'd think the least impact would be for the pager to simply always copy
the string to a temporary holding buffer.  Granted it increases memory
usage when people are viewing something, but that isn't often enough to
have an impact compared to the other memory allocation going on.

- Chris Jacobson


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