On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 12:50 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: [...] > It's perhaps distasteful, but it improves performance. And I'm a > pragmatist at heart ;-) And you measured the time gain guaranteeing that it actually saves that much time. Usually that isn't actually measurable .... And the usual solution is to have a preprocessor symbol to allow people with lots of time and/or "valgrind" and similar tools to clean up cleanly and the speed gang can compile that code out. Kind regards, Bernd -- "I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong." - Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html