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		vips7L on Jan 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: _Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, O... It’s to prevent allocating the array for varargs.

revel on Jan 10, 2022 [–]

Yes. This used to be one of those things that made a significant difference but probably doesn't matter any more. I say "probably" because I haven't seen any code like this that wasn't spat out from a generator in a long time

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