On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 11:28:40AM +1100, Ian McWilliam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the universe’s grand scheme of things the wasted memory, garbage collection and cpu cycles doesn’t mean much.
> 
> The patch removes variable allocation in a while loop that is not needed.
> 
> Ian McWilliam
> 

Have you checked that it actually saves memory ?  Strings are very much
shared in that context.