Em qui., 15 de set. de 2022 às 09:50, Alvaro Herrera <
alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> escreveu:

> On 2022-Sep-14, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>
> > According to:
> >
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-localalloc
>
> > LocalAlloc is deprecated.
> > So use HeapAlloc instead, once LocalAlloc is an overhead wrapper to
> > HeapAlloc.
>
> These functions you are patching are not in performance-sensitive code,
> so I doubt this makes any difference performance wise.  I doubt
> Microsoft will ever remove these deprecated functions, given its history
> of backwards compatibility, so from that perspective this change does
> not achieve anything either.
>
If users don't adapt to the new API, the old one will never really expire.


> If you were proposing to change how palloc() allocates memory, that
> would be quite different and perhaps useful, as long as a benchmark
> accompanies the patch.
>
This is irrelevant to the discussion.
Neither the patch nor the thread deals with palloc.

regards,
Ranier Vilela

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