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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 5/8] qemu-queue: really
	simplify QSIMPLEQ
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> QSIMPLEQ is still relatively heavyweight when used as a free list,
> compared to a simple singly-linked list.  One disadvantage is that
> it requires an initializer macro, unlike for example QLIST.

<pedantic>QSIMPLEQ is no longer a queue if you cannot easily use it in a
FIFO manner.  A queue can efficiently push elements on one end and pop
them from the other end.</pedantic>

Stefan