[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add a fetch callback to allow front-end download support

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 04/04/2009, at 1:48 AM, Dan McGee wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sebastian Nowicki  
> <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29/03/2009, at 5:34 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
>>> I'm assuming the below code didn't really change from what was in  
>>> the
>>> backend- can you verify this, or point out what you did modify?
>>
>> For the most part, yes. I did "inline" some functions, which were  
>> static.
>> There might have been other minor changes.
>
> Was this strictly necessary? I much prefer things being split out in
> functions as it is much easier to read. gcc will *always* optimize
> these back in if they are called as infrequently as they probably are
> (or in a tight loop), so don't try to outsmart the compiler.
There were two choices, inlining it like I did, or copying and pasting  
the functions. Since they were used only once (as far as I know), I  
chose manual inlining. The functions are static within the libalpm  
code, so I couldn't have simply called them, unfortunately. This  
wasn't an optimisation of any sort.