[PATCH] Purge macros NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES
Tiago Vignatti
tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Thu Jul 1 03:39:37 PDT 2010
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:41:31AM +0200, ext Fernando Carrijo wrote:
> Thus spake Alan Coopersmith, when questioned about NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES:
>
> "Long long ago, X was built on computers with 4Mb RAM. The amount of memory
> used for the parse tables was large and if you didn't need it, then you saved
> time & memory #ifdef'ing out the bits you didn't need. Plus, some compilers
> sucked, life was hard, and the bits had to be rolled uphill in the snow both
> ways. In other words, ancient history that can be deleted now unless you're
> really building a 15+ year old release."
>
> This reviewer-friendly series of patches aims to purge both macros.
Cool! For all patches:
Acked-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
BTW, I guess you set up some script to do this work and would be nice to share
it.
Also I saw Daniel on IRC some days ago asking Keith to delete fix-* from
xserver. Not sure about those in particular, but IMHO we should leave there
scripts for this kind of major changes, which is really helpful - maybe
xserver/scripts/ could be created.
Thank you,
Tiago
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