Re: Hypermail - PushByte function is slow!!!

 naudefj_at_telkomsa.net (Frank Naude) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've recompiled hypermail with profiling (added -pg to CFLAGS) to
>identify slow functions. It looks like the PushByte() function is the
>most expensive function in the entire program. What is this function's
>purpose, and what can be done to speed it up?

 It does memory allocation for strings. It could probably be speeded up by allocating more memory at a time, at the cost of increased complexity and/or increased memory use.

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