[PATCH 2 of 2] osutil.c: replace alloca() with malloc() and remove <alloca.h>

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:43:09AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-10-07 23:26, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 10/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> >> The <alloca.h> header is not really portable, and it breaks Mercurial on
> >> FreeBSD.  Remove the dependency on <alloca.h> and alloca() by replacing
> >> the only place where it was used with malloc().
> >
> > Have you done a performance test to see wether it has an impact or not ?
> 
> Not really, how should I go about testing that this is not a performance
> regression?  I ssuspect there's going to be a minor overhead because of
> an extra function call for the free() I added, but it would be nice to
> be able to produce useful performance test results.
> 

hg status on a huge repo ?
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:wq