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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] streaming.c: remove enum/function/vtbl indirection
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 09:14:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmtt83ehm.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJKgsfJXMsR47CkW@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 5 May 2021 09:42:09 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> We can thus remove the entire enum, and the "open_istream_tbl" virtual
>> table that (indirectly) referenced it.
>
> Yeah, I think this is simpler. The value of the vtable was that we might
> have added more functions to it, but we haven't done so over the course
> of the last 10 years. And I have trouble imagining for what purpose we
> would. So it seems like unnecessary complexity.

The code hasn't changed all that much since it was written, so
another equally plausible way forward is not to touch it at all ;-),
but I am fine with this simplification, too.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-06  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-05 12:33 [PATCH 0/5] streaming.c: refactor for smaller + easier to understand code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] streaming.c: avoid forward declarations Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] streaming.c: remove enum/function/vtbl indirection Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 13:42   ` Jeff King
2021-05-06  0:14     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] streaming.c: remove {open,close,read}_method_decl() macros Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 13:44   ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] streaming.c: stop passing around "object_info *" to open() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 13:49   ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] streaming.c: move {open,close,read} from vtable to "struct git_istream" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 13:55   ` Jeff King
2021-05-05 13:57 ` [PATCH 0/5] streaming.c: refactor for smaller + easier to understand code Jeff King

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