ghalliday/HPCC-Platform — comment on commit 1308164f97e19da30728d86abedd56c7784cab39
File: roxie/ccd/ccdserver.cpp line 7921
By richardkchapman:

Because I wanted to avoid the overhead in the dereference for every row fetched, and the usage was simple enough to be able to be reasonably sure it was freeing in all cases it needed to.

Probably premature optimization, especially given a decent compiler that shouldn't impose any overhead on the inline functions in Owned<>...