[PATCH] group_mapping: Avoid a talloc

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:22:42AM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I can see the argument for stuff in tight inner loops, but I'm very,
> very wary of going back to fixed length strings everywhere.  What's the
> whole argument of talloc_pool() that this was fast enough, without all
> the risks of fixed length strings?
> 
> There is a great value in consistency of talloc-based string handling,
> because it means that we can realistically examine our fixed length
> string use, because it's rare, not used anywhere we might save a cycle
> or two outside the hot path.
> 
> In short, I don't like where I see this headed, and I think we should
> consider that.

When was the last time you did performance work?

Volker

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