On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:53:59AM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > > would it be usefull to have some kind of > > 'sms_factory' which you could call > > either with a identifier, or better yet, a set of capabilities it > > requires from the SMS > > (manysmallallocs, realeaseatend ) or ( bigallocs,tracking) > > > > which could then give you the best match for your environment? > > Well, at that point you already know your environment, so we might > as well create a small tool asking questions about environments. > Something like so: > > Do you have lots of small allocations [y/n]? y > Do you free your malloced blocks [y/n]? n > ... > > The best probable match is: <type> > > Where type is "std", "tracking", "trivial", "blocks", etc. > > Then you just put in a call to apr_sms_<type>_create on the spot. > Each type also may have different parameters you can give it > at create and a factory would make that more difficult.
this fits in well with having a bit-field in every SMS [a new function]: what features do you support? see other-post, 30mins ago. luke
