From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:48:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cherry: cache patch-ids to avoid repeating work
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807111647080.8950@racer>
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0807110841r329dfb95g786a576bd981dd1b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Geoffrey Irving wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Why so complicated?  I mean, you can count in that "infinite" loop 
> > yourself, no?
> 
> Yeah, I was just trying to avoid the extra termination condition, 
> because I don't think it adds any real safety.

Sorry.  You absolutely lost me.  While doing the loop over the entries, 
trying to find an entry, adding a counter, and exiting when the counter 
reaches the total number of slots does not add any real safety?

Puzzled,
Dscho