Bug#880883: Some findings about g_closure_ref()/g_closure_unref()

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791706


Hi Punit,

thanks a lot for your excellent work so far!

On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 20:48:08 +0000 Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a few ideas on how to improve the code by re-factoring
> INC_ASSIGN/DEC_ASSIGN to use specialised versions of CHANGE_FIELD in
> gobject/gclosure.c. I'll give those a shot and see if they lead to an
> improvement in performance. Happy to discuss any suggestions or try
> patches and report back.
> 
> It might also be worth raising/discussing the findings here with
> upstream. I am not at all familiar with glib and they might be able to
> help explain the code structure and have suggestions for improvement.

I've filed a bug upstream and copied your findings there. If you have a
bugzilla.gnome.org account, please consider subscribing to this bug
report. It's probably most effective, if you directly talk to upstream
about this.

Regards,
Michael

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