CALL TO COMMITTERS! HELPING WITH SPL REMOVAL!
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jun 2 10:24:17 PDT 2005
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:07:37AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Ok, I spoke too soon. There are over 500 files still using SPLs.
>
> In order to get this done in a reasonable length of time I would like
> to call on those committers with a few hours to burn to help me
> remove SPLs! To reduce overheads, I am only asking for people with a
> commit bit here, because in this case it's almost as much effort to
> make the changes as it would be to review a patch submission!
Matt, I don't think this is a good to rush. I think it can seriously degrade
performance, esp. since some of the spl() protections are hold over longer
areas of time.
I don't have a problem with replacing critical short usage areas with
critical sections, but flatting it directly is not good.
Joerg
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