On 04/06/2016 04:09 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
small streams become big rivers (i don't know the idiomatic sentence in
English, so it's a rough translation from a French idiom),
"Death by a thousand cuts" is one of my favorites:). A "flat profile" is
another description of a similar thing.
I still remain unconvinced in this case that such changes warrant an increase
in unsafe usage (temporary or otherwise).
I did not intend for this patch to spark any controversy - in my mind it
was just a rather straightforward and easy way to save a few Kbs (and
some theoretic startup time) on small program startup and I'm happy to
withdraw it based on the feedback.
I do however think that reducing the dependency graph of things which
are loaded in this early has merits on its own, regardless of how much
it actually improves things. Using VHs here - or even in CHM - seems
more controversial to me than using Unsafe to take shortcuts in
low-level class libraries that need to boot fast and with as few
dependencies as possible (since that allows them to be used in more places).
Thanks!
/Claes
