Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2012, #02; Fri, 7)

On 07.09.12 23:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:

[Discarded]

* jc/sanitize-nkd-lazy-iconv-open (2012-07-31) 1 commit
 . macos: lazily initialize iconv

Teach the code that works around NKD/NKC gotcha on MacOS to call
iconv_open() only when it is necessary, in the hope of avoiding
set-up overhead.  It turns out that there was no noticeable
improvements.

My vote is not to discard the branch: 

Even if the improvements are not measurable, the lazy iconv_open
is a good coding style.

It might inspire people to use resources carefully, 
and only allocate them if they are really needed.