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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] lib: Refactor _notmuch_database_link_message\r
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+Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:\r
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+> Quoth David Bremner on Oct 05 at 9:45 am:\r
+>> Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:\r
+>> > + void *local = talloc_new (NULL);\r
+>> \r
+>> What's the advantage of using a local talloc context here? Is this just\r
+>> an optimization?\r
+>\r
+> There are a few allocations that wind up going in to this local\r
+> context because of the call to _consume_metadata_thread_id, so it's\r
+> more convenient to free this one context on return from\r
+> _notmuch_database_link_message than to worry about tracking these\r
+> various allocations.\r
+\r
+OK, but wouldn't the lazy solution be to use message as a talloc\r
+context?\r
+\r
+d\r