> Some thoughts below.
>
> http://masticate.com/2012/05/08/to-kickstart-or-not-to-kickstart/
"The last time I looked there were over 200k lines of code in there."
It's big and not always healthy. I don't think you'll find much
disagreement on that.
It's the complexity that hurts. Part of the line count contributes to
taming the complexity, such as having each class in a separate file, and
each command or dialog in a class. That part is healthy.
How could we trim the complexity? I'll throw two ideas out there, just
for the sake of discussion.
* In principle we could re-merge some "mapped" classes with their "base"
counterparts. They spend a fair bit of code just staying in sync, or
trying to. But that's a lot of work and error opportunities just to keep
things working about the way they are.
* What if we used garbage collection? Memory management has been
something of an issue. Not long ago Ted tracked down a tricky
referenced-after-freed bug. When I redid MIDI export, managing memory
was a significant part of the work. From my experience, using the Boehm
GC was very easy; I linked it in, replaced malloc and some internal
memory routines, and never had to think about memory management again(*).
But that was in C. In C++ it's apparently harder and STL templates have
to always be told about it.
So I throw those ideas out there to see what everyone else thinks.
Tom Breton (Tehom)
(*) I never had to, but I fooled around with it anyways, causing the one
and only memory-related bug I had.
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