Re: Add specialized object allocator

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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.