On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/01/2018 09:22 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Eric Dumazet wrote: >> >>> The idea of having a ctor() would only be a win if all the fields that >>> can be initialized in the ctor are contiguous and fill an integral >>> number of cache lines. >> >> Ok. Its reducing code size and makes the object status more consistent. >> Isn't that enough? >> > > Prove it ;) > > I yet have to seen actual numbers. Proving with numbers is required for a claimed performance improvement at the cost of code degradation/increase. For a win-win change there is really nothing to prove.
