Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:51:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: cwsdpmi r4 beta
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> I've put together a second beta, with a few additional features.

One thing I saw is that the CWSPARAM.DOC still says the default heap
is 4KB, or at least is a bit confusing about the default value.

> Should the default "extra paragraphs" be increased somewhat?

I wouldn't.  A vast majority of cases work with the default 128
paragraphs.  And the pathological cases I've seen need much more than
the default.  For example, see the last thread on c.o.m.d about
getting gcc to compile a 300K-element array initialization: it
required more than 256 paragraphs to do that (it seems that cc1
allocated 67MB in small chunks).

So adding a few MBytes will IMHO waste a few KBs in CWSDPMI's
conventional memory footprint, but won't make the pathological cases
go away.