From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:50:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR
Message-ID: <180E73BE75C845DFAE259E73AB6DC905@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <535e923776b87_45651483310bf@nysa.notmuch>

From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Marat Radchenko wrote:
>> nedalloc was initially added in f0ed82 to fix slowness of standard 
>> WinXP
>> memory allocator. Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer 
>> valid.
>
> The fact that WinXP is EOLed doesn't mean people are not using it any 
> more =/
>
> I think it should be supported by Git at least for a while.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
> --
My family and I have a number of XP machines [chooses frying pan vs 
fire..]

I'd expect a lot of basic users who are more difficult to support to 
still be on XP for a while.
At least until the next big zero day weakness openss up ;-)

Philip