Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Slab allocators: Drop support for destructors |
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On Thu, 10 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Or do we want to continue support destructors? If so why? > > Well, constructors are on their way out too because they don't seem to > give the performance benefit they were designed for anymore. As for > destructors, they have been pretty useless in Linux for a long time > now and we really don't do much "complex initialization" that requires > undo (releasing resources).
Well I am not too sure about removing constructors. Andrew's test seems to show some benefit. That is just one test though. We need more. I do not like constructors either but if performance tests show regressions then we need to keep them.
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