Re: Boost.URL Proposal max_size

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-03-24 16:56:04

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:24 AM Dominique Devienne via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I think personally 8KB or 16KB is enough.
> Your suggested 64KB is OK too, I guess.
> But your 4GB proposal seems way too big.
> I wouldn't go above 2^20 = 1MB myself, FWIW. --DD

if we go over 64kb then the next possible size is 2^32-1 bytes, as the
question is related to sizing some offsets that are used in lookup
tables. Of course, if the limit is 2GB or 4GB the user can always
impose a lower limit.

Thanks