[tex-live] buf-size
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Mar 30 17:47:37 CEST 2007
David Kastrup wrote:
> line-based IIRC, but setting aside 10MB for the input line buffer is
> just absurd. Actually, setting aside 300k is ridiculous already.
Who talks about setting aside? Hans' proposal is about alleviating
an artificial limit to the (supposedly dynamic) texmf.cnf setting
for input_buffer. That limit really serves no purpose that I know of.
Why should it matter how large Hans (or anyone else) wants the
buffer to be, if the limit is artificial anyway?
> We should reduce this to something like 4k or so and change the code
> to cater with incomplete lines, or this madness will go on with ever
> bigger sizes and discussions.
I agree, but I have no time to write such code. Changing a constant
value is much faster. If you write a change file, I expect it will
be incorporated asap.
Best wishes,
Taco
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