[Freeciv-Dev] Re: list cleaning

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:32:15AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> I want to move ahead on this one. I think my solution is the best one and
> I am willing to code it (what remains to be done).
> 
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 5) lazydeletion with explicit pruning via global list of current
> > genlists
> >  - low code impact
> >  - low speed impact
> >  - low memory impact
> >  - safe
> >
> > 5) looks like the clear winner but has the problem that it won't work
> > without an genlist_destroy function.
> 
> A genlist_destroy has a low code impact, has no speed impact and I can add
> a test on quit that does a quality assurance check that we have no missing
> genlist_destroy calls in the codebase.
> 
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> > Better than 3, but I still don't like the fact that you get to test lists
> > which haven't changed, plus when do you do the pruning? I like to keep
> > things simple.
> 
> We can have a bool per list which is set to TRUE for lists that have
> changed, and are set to FALSE when they are pruned. This way we do no
> tests for lists that are not changed.
> 
> We do pruning once per turn. That is more than good enough.

Can you please repeat the problems which the current code has?

        Raimar

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