Hackers' Pub

Hackers’ Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social

4/22/2025, 7:36:24 AM

Public

I compared #curl today vs curl 8 years ago on malloc count + memory use to download a single 512MB file over cleartext HTTP:

129 mallocs, which is exactly the same.

Maximum allocated now: 135566. 17,681 bytes *less* than eight years ago.

Not everything has to go bloat over time I suppose.

And here's the old blog post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22/fewer-mallocs-in-curl/

Fewer mallocs in curl

Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do. This time the generic linked list functions got converted to become malloc-less (the way linked list functions should behave, really). Instrument mallocs I started out my quest a few weeks ago by instrumenting our memory … Continue reading Fewer mallocs in curl →

daniel.haxx.se · daniel.haxx.se

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