Re: snprintfv

[Bruno Haible]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> > But I think the *printf replacements should continue to be based on the
> > vasnprintf code, because of object code size. On a Linux/x86 system:
> 
> With typical new systems using 1GB ram and 150GB disk,
> we're talking 1/100000 of the RAM and less than ten millionths
> of one percent of disk space.

And how much of the L1 instruction cache? Intel's Pentium, Pentium Pro,
Pentium III, Celeron 1.7 GHz each have only 8 KB of it. Make one call to
snprintfv, and the cache is emptied. AMD64 has 64 KB of it; it's a bit better.

Bruno