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    Remove the vcl_discard{} facility, it does not seem to bring benefits · b1fe4dfd
    Poul-Henning Kamp authored
    which outweigh the trouble it causes.
    
    The original idea was to allow intelligent purging for space reason
    in a size-constrained storage.
    
    In practice, storage is seldomly constrained.
    
    In the cases where it is, I have yet to see any documented benefit
    from using vcl_discard{}, likely because of the fragmentation such
    use would cause.
    
    The implementation of the vcl_discard callback had severe costs in
    code complexity (not fully unrolled by this commit) and locking
    activity.
    
    The straw that breaks the camels back, is that faithfull implementation
    of vcl_discard{} in -spersistence would force us to relocate objects,
    at a cost likely higher than picking them up from the backend.
    
    
    
    git-svn-id: http://www.varnish-cache.org/svn/trunk/varnish-cache@4099 d4fa192b-c00b-0410-8231-f00ffab90ce4
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