At 01:54 AM 3/26/2002, you wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >>If you feel it will -improve- stability [nothing else, just stability] >>then we can >>roll it in even after the tag. >> >>If you feel it needs a bit of 'incubation' - perhaps it should sit in >>developer's >>trees for a week or two and go out in .35. > >I'm in favor of including the new bucket allocator API >in .34, in order to stabilize the API for 3rd party module >maintainers. > >The *implementation* of the bucket free lists, though, >will need a couple more weeks of development and testing. >So if we include the new API in .34, we'll have to use >the malloc-based allocator implementation (from Cliff's >original patch).
If you and Cliff know that's a stable patch, safe for inclusion this time around, and helpful to implementors [because you promise not to break the API just as soon as you've first implemented it ;-] then I'd love to see that committed in the morning. Bill
