Hello,
While memory isn't a huge concern I just like being as efficient as
possible. Also could memory be a concern for those using liblouis in
embedded devices (although there may be a question of why they would be
using python in such a case).
My personal view would be go for something like 12 times but allow the
ratio to be configured as desired as it adds very little in complexity
(eg. in the python case it is the difference of having the ratio as
module public variable or module level private, module level seems most
sensible to me as the ratio may be needed in more than one function). An
example of what I am meaning is attached (this patch only does the
translate function it would be easy enough to do the other functions).
I don't like the set it to a large value for the output buffer with no
relation to input buffer as what happens in the case someone chucks a
huge amount of input at liblouis? How do you decide what is really big
enough?
As for jlouis, currently sets the ratio to 2 times as that was what
everyone else seemed to do, but I am probably going to go with the large
default ratio but configurable if desired option.
Michael Whapples
