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2004-07-04

2004-07-04 14:51:19 by Martin Stjernholm <mast@lysator.liu.se>

Fixed some comments about the reason for the codecs mapping.

Rev: lib/master.pike.in:1.354

6:   // Pike is distributed under GPL, LGPL and MPL. See the file COPYING   // for more information.   // - // $Id: master.pike.in,v 1.353 2004/07/04 14:30:09 mast Exp $ + // $Id: master.pike.in,v 1.354 2004/07/04 14:51:19 mast Exp $      #pike __REAL_VERSION__   //#pragma strict_types
4226:    }   }    - mapping(string:Decoder) codecs = set_weak_flag(([]),1); + // Note: This mapping is not for caching but for coping with recursion + // problems by returning the same codec for the same file. As a cache + // it's really pointless. + static mapping(string:Decoder) codecs = set_weak_flag (([]), 1); +    Decoder get_codec(string|void fname, int|void mkobj, void|object handler)   {    if (handler) -  // Maybe cache these too? Not done right now since explicit -  // handlers are fairly rare. Note that caching easily could -  // introduce a cyclic ref through Decoder.handler. +  // Decoders are currently not reused in this case since it's +  // tricky to set up a weak multilevel mapping for lookup. This is +  // seldom a problem since explicit handlers are fairly rare. If it +  // is then the handler can always override this function.    return Decoder (fname, mkobj, handler);    string key = fname + "\0" + mkobj;    if (codecs[key]) return codecs[key];