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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2012, #02; Fri, 7)

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Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date
Sep 8, 2012, 05:47 UTC
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On 07.09.12 23:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> [Discarded]
> 
> * jc/sanitize-nkd-lazy-iconv-open (2012-07-31) 1 commit
>  . macos: lazily initialize iconv
> 
> Teach the code that works around NKD/NKC gotcha on MacOS to call
> iconv_open() only when it is necessary, in the hope of avoiding
> set-up overhead.  It turns out that there was no noticeable
> improvements.
My vote is not to discard the branch:

Even if the improvements are not measurable, the lazy iconv_open is a good coding style.

It might inspire people to use resources carefully, and only allocate them if they are really needed.

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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2012
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