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Re: Add specialized object allocator

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jun 19, 2006, 21:38 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> Impressed.  I wonder if we want to deal with any_object
>> structure as well.
>
> Well, it would certainly be very easily doable, but none of the core code 
> actually uses it, so it wasn't even on my radar.

I think the definition of "the core" in your earlier message was "stuff I [jc: Linus] use myself", and I think the above statement is in line with that definition.

It is hereby officially declared that commit walkers are not part of the core ;-).

Even the commit walker uses lookup_unknown only for the starting object and all the rest are of known type, so it does not help even if we did "union any_object" that much.

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  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2006
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  3. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsJun 19, 2006
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