Re: Server QUERY_STRING limit for NASA EOS

• To: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
• Subject: Re: Server QUERY_STRING limit for NASA EOS
• From: JCMA@ai.mit.edu (John C. Mallery)
• Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:04:21 -0400
• Cc: "Kenneth B. Sall" <ksall@cen.com>, www-cl@ai.mit.edu
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

At 12:53 AM 10/4/95, Michael Travers wrote:
>    This is lisp; there is no limit.
>
>Actually you would no doubt run into the limit on the size on a
>1-dimensional array. In MCL 3 this is 4194304, big enough for most
>URLs I would guess!

You might not have that much fun hashing on it either in order to map the string
to the URL object!

These kinds of fixed limits are usually absent in Lisp precisely because
the language is designed for dynamic memory allocation and automatic
garbage collection.

Surely, after submitting a couple of those queries, there will be plenty of
garbage to collect!

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