[Gegl-developer] BABL constructors speedup patch

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 17:57 +0100, Jan Heller wrote:

>   Here is an another patch I came up with while playing with
>   BABL code. It concerns constructors of the BABL classes.
>   The original code prepares the whole instance of a class
>   before trying to insert it into the BABL database. The
>   insertion might fail in case there is an instance of the
>   same name already present in the database. This is a bit
>   wasteful, so the patch tries to test the preexistent
>   instance as soon as possible. 

Very nice. I have committed this change to SVN.

BTW, wasn't there some additional changes needed after your last patch?
If I remember correctly, some lists still need to be ported to the new
list API. Is that correct?


Sven