On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:41:41 +0100 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> said:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> >> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Toma <tomha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Thought Id ping the mailing list about this:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Release
> >>>>
> >>>> As the top of the page says, we need to finalize the list of things
> >>>> TODO. Mekius mentioned removing a couple of the EFM todos and Id
> >>>> welcome that. Im in the process of finishing off the icons, but think
> >>>> some of the dialogs could either get the chop, or get renamed. One of
> >>>> these is 'Interactions', as it has a pile of thumbscroll options.
> >>>>
> >>>> Shall we set a date for closing off the TODO feature list? Any
> >>>> additions after that date will be bugs related to the features.
> >>>>
> >>>> I propose February 14th. Its close, realistic, and might dull the
> >>>> loneliness of Valentines Day. :)
> >>>
> >>> So time has come and we're working on that release list. In the last
> >>> days I've being working on some show stopper stuff like file
> >>> management and I plan to get ride of most items by March.
> >>
> >> Did the same on the eina front :)
> >>
> >>> Some items in the list are very demanding, like finish converting
> >>> ecore data types to eina, but Cedric has some pending patches in
> >>> queue. If people can help with these "easy" items, then we can work on
> >>> more complex stuff and get E17 released soon, making everybody happy,
> >>> with ready to use packages in most distros :-)
> >>
> >> All my pending patch are now in. It should not introduce any
> >> regression. Now e_dbus, efreet and ecore should only return Eina_List.
> >>
> >> Still on the TODO, but this could be done one after another with very
> >> small commit :
> >> - remove ecore_dlist (replace by eina_list)
> >> - remove Ecore_List2 (could be replaced by eina_inlist)
> >> - review every little loop in the code around list and check, if it
> >> would not be better to use EINA_LIST_FREE or EINA_LIST_FOREACH (at the
> >> same time, look if we can avoid useless strdup).
> > ...
> >
> > I'd say we should inspect places where lists and specially list
> > *copies* are returned and use eina_iterator or eina_accessor instead.
> > In many places we dup the list (1 walk), then use it (+1 walk), then
> > free it (+1 walk), so 3 walk for a simple task. If we used the
> > iterator stuff we could alloc a small amount of memory and do the same
> > thing, just more clean, safer and faster.
> >
> > Comes to mind evas_render_method_list() and similar.
> 
> Yes, returning Eina_Iterator would be a better solution in many place
> in the EFL API. Could be faster and more memory efficient for many
> case, and it will explicitely say that a the content of a list should
> not be destroyed/modified by the caller.

beware of being too gung-ho. some of htese (like evas_render_method_list())
are called so rarely you likely just make the api harder to use for no real
gain. :)

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