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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:01:58 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c) 
Message-ID:  <200012180501.WAA87838@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2000 17:03:16 CST." <20001217170316.A63227@hamlet.nectar.com> 
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In message <20001217170316.A63227@hamlet.nectar.com> "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: I hate to give up a line for
: 
:       if (data)
:               free(data);
: 
: but neither do I care for ``if (data) free(data);''.  I guess if I 
: were writing several statements like that in a single file, I would
: consider the macro route (e.g. xfree).

No offense, but this strikes me as a premature, sub-micro
optimization.  I doubt that you could measure any difference between
	if (foo) free(foo);
and	free(foo);

in the real world.

Warner


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