[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #935: HTTPD can use large amounts of memory for its hash table of pages

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#935: HTTPD can use large amounts of memory for its hash table of pages
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  Reporter:  rhaas                  |       Owner:       
      Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new  
  Priority:  minor                  |   Milestone:       
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit thorn  |     Version:       
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:  HTTPD
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Comment (by rhaas):

 Attached please find two patches that make HTTPD use the STL map
 container. The first one (use_cxx_map) turn the affected files int C++
 source code and directly uses the map template class. The changes to the
 source files are a ugly since while HTTPD is decent C code it is rather
 ugly C++ code. The second one leaves the files as C files but introduces a
 small set of wrapper functions that map std::map's interface onto the C
 functions that HTTPD used. The changes to the source are essentially a
 search and replace of util_Hash by httpd_Map (plus removal of superfluous
 arguments).

 Either patch is ok with me though I wrote the second (wrapping) one after
 having finished the first one and realizing how awkward it was and thus
 have a preference for the second one.

 There's no test for HTTPD but running a quick test run on my workstation,
 both seem to not break the code.

 Ok to to apply (which patch)?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/935#comment:4>
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