[libxml-devel] Improving memory usage in libxml-devel

[Charlie Savage]

> The one thing I didn't include in the post is the output of "vmmap" on 
> OS X prior to this change.
> 
> It showed large amounts of memory both marked as "(freed)" and some 
> not.  That pattern reminded me of internal fragmentation in a malloc 
> implementation, which is a standard problem to be overcome when 
> implementing one.  If anyone is interested, I could post that as well.

This seems to work fine on Windows.  In my quick look, it improved 
memory usage by about 15%....

Charlie
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