Malloc timeline.

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 12/19/2013 01:21 PM, Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:58:03PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 December 2013 07:08:34 Ondřej Bílka wrote:
>>> As there were considerable discussion how improve malloc we should
>>> decide what is feasible for 2.19 and what for 2.20.
>>
>> the only thing appropriate for 2.19 at this point in time i think are bug fixes 
>> (and perhaps style clean ups).
>> -mike
> 
> I was mostly interested at what should be marked as considered for
> removal. 
> 
> a performance could be improved a bit with cleanups as we could simplify
> a hot path for malloc/calloc.

I agree with Mike and others, that even for 2.19 we don't have enough time
to agree on what will or will not be removed. For 2.20 we will have time.

Cheers,
Carlos.