From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:45:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] abspath.c: use PATH_MAX in real_path_internal()
Message-ID: <xmqqbnsmobsq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <53C85625.6020808@gmail.com>

Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> writes:

> Am 17.07.2014 14:45, schrieb Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy:
>> e.g. "git init". Make it static too to reduce stack usage.
>
> But wouldn't this increase overall memory usage? Stack memory
> will be reused by subsequent code, while static memory cannot
> be reused (but still increases the process working set).

Correct.  And this is a function that is not involved in deep
recursion, so avoiding stack allocation seems quite misguided.