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echo: muffin
to: Michael Grant
from: Bo Simonsen
date: 2003-10-18 23:03:22
subject: Long `unzip` time

BS> By boss is a old squish user, he told about the 
 BS> buffer problem, if a line
 BS> had more than 512 charecters, Squish didn't read 
 BS> the rest.. And it was
 BS> very problematic because he did have over 200 points, and many links
 BS> too..

 MG> The upper write limit is 128k in the 32 bit version. 
 MG> Isn't that a bit more than 512 characters?

Well I guess it's then it's reading a line from the configfile, it only
reads 512 charecters.

 MG> Hpt has proven that Squish doesn't need this limit in 
 MG> 32-bit environments, because it's Squish compatible and 
 MG> it doesn't have the limit. It'll process anything as 
 MG> long as you have enough memory on your system.

Huh? Actually what does 32-bit environment has to do with a buffer size?

Regards,
Bo


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