Re: [patch] cache color info for remote X sessions [Was: Emacs 21/X11 generating unbelieveable network traffic]

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:31:07PM -0700, Ami Fischman wrote:
> - The keys were being xmalloc'ed (unnecessarily) and then leaked.  Instead
>   each of the wrapper functions now has a static buffer (of a #define'able
>   size) to store the transient keys.  

Note that you could also use `alloca', which is almost as cheap as a static
buffer, and doesn't require you to free anything.

-Miles
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