On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> All of those are utter crap. Older gcc's had some little inlining
> problems that generated suboptimal code, but that's cured now and I
> don't thikn it even made a difference for the small list_* functions.
I think if we scale slists to be like lists, we don't need to make the
difference at all. slists are supposed to be lightweight lists, single
direction, and working anywhere on any type of structure. (e.g. you can
access a whole struct thread through the ->next pointer, instead of
further crap.)
If we can avoid type dependency, we should do now. If you want inlined
code, go read list.h. (I remember that's why the lists were called
`type-safe', BTW. Meant to be type-preserve, and definitely the same type
as before.)
Thunder
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