From kde-commits  Mon Jan 14 02:11:03 2002
From: Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:11:03 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kdebase/kcontrol/kdm
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#if Oswald Buddenhagen

> > (I will never understand why people use QFont pointers)
> > 
> because it's more effective? c++ makes many things simple. especially
> unnecessarily slow/bloated code (not that it would matter much in this
> case, but in general i'm sure we could make kde twice as fast by 
> eliminating typical unefficiencies hidden by high-level constructs).
> even if qfont is a qshared, there is still a significant overhead in
> copying it compared to assigning a pointer.

Did you measure that ? What was the outcome ? It's bad programming style
to use pointers to QFont when they're not necessary, so you need a good
reason for it.

Rik