Re: Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-16 Thread Andrew Whitworth
, 2010 at 3:29 AM > Subject: Re: Deprecate Buffers. > To: Vasily Chekalkin > > > Why do they even need deprecation? Are they user visible somehow? > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Vasily Chekalkin wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Currently we have STRING and B

Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Lobsinger
-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Lobsinger Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM Subject: Re: Deprecate Buffers. To: Vasily Chekalkin Why do they even need deprecation? Are they user visible somehow? On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Vasily Chekalkin wrote: > He

Re: Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-15 Thread NotFound
> Currently we have STRING and Buffers as one of core GCable objects. > Buffers were introduced long time ago, before ByteBuffer PMC. At this > point of Buffers used only in Packfiles and can be easiliy replaced > with BytBuffer. Note that ByteBuffer, as its name implies, provides only byte addres

Re: Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-15 Thread Luben Karavelov
replaced > with BytBuffer. > > I would like to deprecate Buffers. It will simplify life of ony GC > implementors (e.g. me with gc_massacre), cleanup code, decrease > maintenance cost, etc. +1 from me. Also "bufferlike_header" pool is not used anymore and it's purpose is

Re: Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-15 Thread Andrew Whitworth
t; Hello. > > Currently we have STRING and Buffers as one of core GCable objects. > Buffers were introduced long time ago, before ByteBuffer PMC. At this > point of Buffers used only in Packfiles and can be easiliy replaced > with BytBuffer. > > I would like to deprecate Buffers. It

Deprecate Buffers.

2010-09-15 Thread Vasily Chekalkin
Hello. Currently we have STRING and Buffers as one of core GCable objects. Buffers were introduced long time ago, before ByteBuffer PMC. At this point of Buffers used only in Packfiles and can be easiliy replaced with BytBuffer. I would like to deprecate Buffers. It will simplify life of ony GC