Re: [Inkscape-devel] g_free cleanup

Peter Moulder wrote:

Disadvantage of the transformation:

• Involves a function call even in the NULL case (unless g_free is a macro or inline function that tests for NULL before passing to the "real" version).

My question here is: "So, what's the problem with that?"

What's the extra overhead of the function call? milliseconds? microseconds? How often does a function call with null happen? once a minute? 1,000 times a second?

Otherwise... that sounds like a premature optimization kind of concern. (BTW, I think it originated to keep older C memory libraries happy)