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: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22…

Fewer mallocs in curl

Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do.

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