On Wednesday 12 June 2013 15:39:58 Karl Schmidt did opine: > > The problem is, this is an international development. One specific > > non-cooperating person is in England. > > The right answer is to make a list of bits that would need to be > re-written. Time with lawyers and courts are a psychic-energy-sink - > re-doing sections of code, while time consuming, probably will use less > time. > > Creating this list is a tedious and thankless job, but once the list is > made, it might be surprising how fast the code can be re-written.
+1000. Back when I dreamed in hexidecimal circa 1980, because I didn't even have an assembler, some of the code I decoded turned out to be pretty bad stuff, and when I redid it, it often wound up 1/3rd the size even after adding bounds checking and correspondingly faster. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> God requireth not a uniformity of religion. -- Roger Williams A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
