Re: Ping Packagers

[Brian Kroth]

Dustin Kirkland <address@hidden> 2009-12-22 10:42:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I don't think there will be much of a problem using dynamic malloc in the
> > current code. However, it can be problematic for when we merge in the
> > scripting support. For example, a script could store the window pointers
> > somewhere, and use them in a callback. A dynamic malloc will either cause
> > this to crash, or require complicated checks in the script (or the script
> > loaders).
> >
> > So to keep it 'forward-compatible', perhaps increase the default limit to
> > 100, and allow increasing the limit only when creating a new session. How
> > does that sound?
> 
> I think 100 sounds reasonable.

Agreed.  I also like the idea of being able to specify it at session
creation time.

Thanks,
Brian