On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:38:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Maybe that is just the simplest answer?  It can be a simple constant that is
> > changeable at compile time, and leave it at that
> > 
> > What's most likely to cause the least argument?
> 
> I'd suggest just raising it to 64k or so, that's likely to be acceptable, 
> and it's a static 8kB array. That's likely not much more than the code 
> needed to worry about dynamic entries, yet I'd assume that changing it 
> from 256 to 64k is going to make most people say "enough".

How's this then?  It doesn't get any simpler..

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Tim Hockin
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