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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Add specialized object allocator
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:38:45 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> Impressed.  I wonder if we want to deal with any_object
>> structure as well.
>
> Well, it would certainly be very easily doable, but none of the core code 
> actually uses it, so it wasn't even on my radar. 

I think the definition of "the core" in your earlier message was
"stuff I [jc: Linus] use myself", and I think the above
statement is in line with that definition.

It is hereby officially declared that commit walkers are not
part of the core ;-).

Even the commit walker uses lookup_unknown only for the starting
object and all the rest are of known type, so it does not help
even if we did "union any_object" that much.