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Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions |
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Mon, 29 Mar 1999 07:57:16 -0500 (EST) |
> *Lynx thoroughly registers functions (via atexit) that will free up
> allocated
> memory chunks. IMO it's not necessary at least on "normal" systems -
> allocated
that's only used for memory-leak checking, should be ifdef'd as such.
> memory is always reclaimed at the program exit. Not registering functions
> that
> clear allocated space possibly will yield performance increase since
> (as I understand) it let libc routines to clear the memory in the way it
> thinks optimal (in the order the chunks are in the memory manager lists).
> IMO it's safe to make such optimization for all Unixes and possibly
> Windows. Am I right ? Please correct this list of OSes if something wrong.
>
> * Lynx memset's to 0 'links' and 'history' in 'main' (their total size is
> ~85Kb).
> IMO it's useless since unitiliazied data is always fill by zeros. May be
> this
not true (I've gotten a few reports about this for non-Unix systems)
> operation should be done exclusively on those OSes, under which it's not
> correct. This will slightly speedup invokation time at least on slow
> machines.
> IMO it's safe to make such optimization for all Unixes and possibly
> Windows. Am I right ? Please correct this list of OSes if something wrong.
>
> Keyboard layout:
> * It seems that there are only very few keys that are unassigned. May be it's
> time to switch to handling of key sequences (may be limiting their length
> by
> two keys for now, like ^x-s)
>
> LSS support:
> * May be it's time to declare lss support non-experimental and, may be, make
> it be compiled-in by default? IMO it doesn't have apparent bugs in
> implementation.
> * May be it will be useful to include more examples of .lss files with
> distribution so that non-experienced users be able to select one of them
> instead of composing their own? (I can post mine and the one that was sent
> by Sergey Svishchev <address@hidden>).
I added those to the samples directory for dev.21
> -Vlad
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- lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Philip Webb, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Webmaster Jim, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, David Combs, 1999/03/29
- Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions, Vlad Harchev, 1999/03/30