"Mike Shaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > do_CreateInstance isn't always what you want. If you're not set up to > allow arbitrary implementations of the component (taking into account > threadsafety and other issues that come with that), you should probably > just use |new| and save the cycles. >
It's not just arbitrary implementations, because of the inlining if netlib wants to issue a minor binary patch that disturbs its memory layout, then every component that calls it has to be patched too. This could cause a minor security patch to force a re-download of the entire Mozilla install. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
