On Thu, 10 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Or do we want to continue support destructors? If so why?
>
> Well, constructors are on their way out too because they don't seem to
> give the performance benefit they were designed for anymore. As for
> destructors, they have been pretty useless in Linux for a long time
> now and we really don't do much "complex initialization" that requires
> undo (releasing resources).
Well I am not too sure about removing constructors. Andrew's test seems to
show some benefit. That is just one test though. We need more. I do not
like constructors either but if performance tests show regressions then we
need to keep them.
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