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Apart from being less code, this actually gives us a tiny performance improvement. Up until a few years ago, if you pass `NULL` as the marshaller for a signal, GLib would fall back to `g_cclosure_marshal_generic` which uses libffi to pack/unpack its arguments. One could avoid this by specifying a more specific marshaller which would then be used to immediately pack and unpack into GValues with the correct type. Lately however, as a way of optimizing signal emission (which can be quite expensive), GLib added a possibility to set a `va_marshaller`, which skips the unnecessary GValue packing and unpacking and just uses a valist variant. Since the performance difference is big enough, if the marshaller argument is NULL, `g_signal_new()` will now check for the simple marshallers (return type NONE and a single argument) and set both the generic and the valist marshaller. In other words, less code for us with behind-the-scenes optimizations. In case you also want va_marshallers for more complex signals, you can use `g_signal_set_va_marshaller()`.
libgnome-volume-control
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