From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pkg_outdated wasted memory
To: Ian McWilliam <kaosagnt@gmail.com>
Cc: OpenBSD ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:21:31 +0200

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.