[Xcb] [PATCH] Making XCB less of a memory hog

[Barton C Massey]

In message <20070511191529.GA7797 at code-monkey.de> you wrote:
> Barton C Massey [2007-05-11 11:55]:
> > In message <20070511151628.GA1818 at code-monkey.de> you wrote:
> > > OTOH, this unfortunately breaks the API.
> >
> > My reading-XML-at-the-terminal ability is limited.  What
> > does the proposed API look like?  Or did you mean an ABI
> > break, about which we probably care not at all?
> [...] 
> So that ext pointer is moved from the struct to the function call.
> This would break the API and the ABI.
> 
> That's for the patch I submitted, but I also outlined a way to avoid the
> break, by adding xcb_send_request2(), that takes the new arguments.
> 
> Let me know if I need to explain better.

No, that gets it: thanks!  So the only API/ABI that breaks
is that between XCB extensions (and Xlib, as you point out)
and the XCB core.

In general I'm loathe to work around performance bugs in the
current implementation of shared libraries by distorting
XCB.  However, this seems like a relatively minor change;
seems to me we should do it.  Jamey?  Others?

    Bart