[Xcb] How come there is no xcb_free_id()?

[Christ-Jan Wijtmans]

why spend extra cycles to detect an "unused one"?


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Bart Massey <bart at cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
> I assume you mean xcb_free_xid()? It's not needed. xcb_generate_xid()
> will always hand you a fresh one; if it runs out, it will ask the
> server (via the xc_misc extension) for some unused ones to hand out in
> the future. In general, folks just plow through xids fairly
> indiscriminately, since they're cheap. --Bart
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, medusade <medusade at cox.net> wrote:
>> Xcb, How come there is no xcb_free_id()?
>> medusade
>>
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