Discussion Thread: DIP 1040--Copying, Moving, and Forwarding--Community Review Round 1

Fri Mar 12 02:06:19 UTC 2021

On 3/11/2021 4:57 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> These problems seems to arise due to the fact postblit did not distinguish 
> between move and copy.
> 
> postblit is inappropriate for copy, but as far as I can tell, not only does it 
> work for move, but it's the only path that do not involve creating yet more 
> magic that's going to bite us in the ass at some point.

postblit bit us in the ass quite a bit. (postblit didn't do moves)