On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:07 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 2014-12-23 14:03 -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > This may be a much longer argument, but I'm not convinced that > > sacrificing what would otherwise be good programming practice > > (never unboxing your pointers) at the altar of performance is a good > > idea. > > Why do you think never unboxing pointers is a good programming > practice? Because it allows/encourages mixed ownership regimes between reference counting (or single ownership) and explicit management. Note that I'm not saying that there's never a time for unboxing, but it should be done carefully not routinely. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
