[Aptitude-devel] Experimental package and package_pool implementation

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2010-07-12, Daniel Burrows <dburrows at google.com> wrote:
>     - I would drop the virtual destructor here and make it impossible to
>       subclass package (by hiding its constructor and using a static factory).
>       That allows you to avoid a virtual method table for each instance (not
>       a huge deal even if we create tens of thousands of them, but not bad
>       either)

I think that constantly converting to and from Qt types is going to be a
bigger performance killer than most other things in this code, so I
really think we should do as few conversions as possible to and from Qt
types. This means, use the QFoo in as many cases as possible.

/Sune