Re: What is the purpose of wdcache and wlcache?

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/7/19 11:43 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't understand the purpose of wdcache and wlcache. The "nc" field
> seems to be always 0 (as initialized in ocache_create(), and I don't
> find where it is increased. But `ocache_alloc()` just call xmalloc
> without using the cache since nc is 0. So wdcache and wlcache seem to
> be useless.
> 
> Do I miss something?

Yes: ocache_free.

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