Hi Antonio,
On 2011-10-17 18:37, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
Hello Martin,
and thank you for the explanation.
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:16:25 +0200, Martin Hundebøll wrote:
Now here's the question: When a list of a certain coding_path becomes empty, should I free the coding_path right away, or should I timestamp it and mark it for removal at a later time. The thing is that I don't know whether a new packet for the same coding_path will arrive in a short moment. If I have just freed the coding_path struct, I would have to spend ressources to initialize it again...
It is probably a micro-optimiziation and the simplest solution would be to just free it right away, but I would like to have your comments anyways.
In my opinion it would be better to _keep_ the struct even if the corresponding packet list is empty.
I agree. I have just made a housekeeping task to clean up other elements, so it shouldn't be a problem to add the coding_path here :)
Thanks!