On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:31 -0400, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 04:32, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > Greg Stein wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 18:42, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:
> >> > Greg Stein wrote:
> >> >> If you construct the iterpool in the declaration (as before), then you
> >> >> can use it for the call to svn_cl__xml_print_header(), as its
> >> >> scratch_pool. Any mem used by the call will be cleared on the first
> >> >> iteration of the loop.
> > [...]
> >> >> And if you don't destroy it so soon, then you get to use it for that
> >> >> last call, too.
> >> > [...]
> >> >
> >> > That's true, there is the opportunity to do that, but is it really worth
> >> > breaking the well-defined "iterpool" pattern for such a little extra
> >> > optimisation? I don't think so. Keep it simple.
> >>
> >> Eh? How does it break it?
> >>
> >> You alloc the iterpool. clear it at the start of each iteration.
> >> destroy it later. I see no change to that.
> >
> > "The pool you use also helps readers of the code understand object
> > lifetimes. Is a given object used only during one iteration of the loop,
> > or will it need to last beyond the end of the loop?"
> >
> > Quoted from <http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#apr-pools>.
>
> Okay. So what? The iterpool is still an iterpool, used within the loop
> and cleared each time. How does allocating other objects in it "break"
> the pattern?
>
> (and yes, we use iterpools outside of the loop in plenty of other
> places; it makes a great scratch pool)
We can talk in person tomorrow. Easier than email :-)
- Julian
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