  This talk discusses the relative impact of running-coupling and other
higher-order corrections on the small-x gluon-gluon splitting function.
Comments are made on similarities with some aspects of the Balitsky-Kovchegov
equation, which arise because of the presence of an effective infrared cutoff
in both cases. It is emphasised that, at least in the splitting-function case,
the asymptotic small-x behaviour has little relevance to the phenomenologically
interesting preasymptotic region. This is illustrated with the aid of a
convolution of the resummed splitting function with a toy gluon distribution.
