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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	"Marat Radchenko" <marat@slonopotamus.org>,
	"GIT Mailing-list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:50:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <180E73BE75C845DFAE259E73AB6DC905@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 535e923776b87_45651483310bf@nysa.notmuch

From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Marat Radchenko wrote:
>> nedalloc was initially added in f0ed82 to fix slowness of standard 
>> WinXP
>> memory allocator. Since WinXP is EOLed, this point is no longer 
>> valid.
>
> The fact that WinXP is EOLed doesn't mean people are not using it any 
> more =/
>
> I think it should be supported by Git at least for a while.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
> --
My family and I have a number of XP machines [chooses frying pan vs 
fire..]

I'd expect a lot of basic users who are more difficult to support to 
still be on XP for a while.
At least until the next big zero day weakness openss up ;-)

Philip 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-28 13:51 [RFC/PATCH v1] Towards MinGW(-W64) cross-compilation Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 01/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: add explicit way to request MinGW-build Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 16:12   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 02/12] MINGW: compat/bswap.h: include stdint.h Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 14:45   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 14:52     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 14:54       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 03/12] MINGW: compat/mingw.h: do not attempt to redefine lseek on mingw-w64 Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:02   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 15:09     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:19       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 19:59   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-04-28 19:58     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 20:13     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 04/12] Makefile: introduce CROSS_COMPILE variable Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 16:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 17:34     ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 20:40     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 20:45       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 20:54         ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 17:37   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 18:15     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 18:09       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 23:38       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 23:54         ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 05/12] MINGW: git-compat-util.h: use inttypes.h for printf macros Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 14:53   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 15:00     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:07       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 06/12] MSVC: config.mak.uname: drop -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS from compile definitions Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:32   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 07/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: reorganize MINGW settings Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 14:58   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 15:04     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:17       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 16:42         ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 08/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname allow using CURL for non-msysGit builds Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:26   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 16:23     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 16:24       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 09/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop -DNOGDI Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 14:56   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:23   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 16:30     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-29  7:48     ` Marat Radchenko
2014-04-29  7:59       ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 17:39   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-28 19:50     ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 11/12] MINGW: do not fail at redefining pid_t on MinGW-W64 Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:24   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 13:51 ` [PATCH 12/12] MINGW: compat/mingw.h: drop fork() definition Marat Radchenko
2014-04-28 15:20   ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-04-28 15:34 ` [RFC/PATCH v1] Towards MinGW(-W64) cross-compilation Erik Faye-Lund
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-28 16:11 [PATCH 10/12] MINGW: config.mak.uname: drop USE_NED_ALLOCATOR Marat Radchenko

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