New handling of privates [was: Re: xf86-video-intel 2.5 release planning]
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Fri Aug 1 16:06:21 PDT 2008
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 18:05 -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote:
> The ability to pre-allocate memory is a legacy of the old system. Some
> object types offered this "feature," some didn't. I think it would be
> great if this feature was dropped. The callers of it would need to be
> changed to allocate their own space. There would have to be a
> deprecation period so out-of-tree users could adjust.
Reducing the number of allocations needed for each object is still a
worthwhile goal; malloc is still not free. I don't see how to reconcile
that with the need to resize the privates array at runtime though, which
I have to admit is a compelling new feature.
--
keith.packard at intel.com
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