Re: Streams constify API change in master leads to compilation warning for extensions

On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 23:01 -0400, William Bartlett wrote: > My understanding is that the const triggers some optimizations because the > compiler better understands how the variables are used. There's not really much win. In most cases the generated code is exactly the same.*) Such changes are nice to spot bugs as the compiler has more knowledge of the intention and to make C++ compilers happy when using these APIs as C++ is stricter on const. johannes *) there are few cases where this helps with inlining or passing params via register, but here we mostly deal with exported APIs which have to follow the platforms ABI rules.