[PATCH 02/11] lib: Refactor _notmuch_database_link_message

Austin Clements aclements at csail.mit.edu
Sun Oct 5 16:20:08 PDT 2014


Quoth David Bremner on Oct 05 at  9:45 am:
> Austin Clements <aclements at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> > +    void *local = talloc_new (NULL);
> 
> What's the advantage of using a local talloc context here? Is this just
> an optimization?

There are a few allocations that wind up going in to this local
context because of the call to _consume_metadata_thread_id, so it's
more convenient to free this one context on return from
_notmuch_database_link_message than to worry about tracking these
various allocations.


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