Hi Alan! Nobody I think misunderstood what Doug wrote and we're all happy to use Judy everyday ;-)
Thanks for this amazing piece of code guys. cheers Younès Alan Silverstein a écrit : > Gang, I'm glad to see Doug still working on the Judy library, and > responding to emails here. But, he wrote: > > >> I have to agree with you about the readability of Judy. Alan did his >> best to obscure the code -- perhaps unintentionally. >> > > For the record: I took a lot of highly redundant code, thousands of > lines, and over time, with Doug's (grudging) approval and continued > interaction, cleaned it up and ensured it was well formatted and > documented. The conscientious use of macros was to replace large > sections of code, typically eight repetitions with dozens of lines in > each instance and only minor differences, that were also mind-numbing to > comprehend in their own way. We agreed that for performance the code > had to be "maximally unrolled", the question was how to do that while > also making it elegant (and portable, and reliable). > > As I've written before, if we had but known (and had them available on > HPUX), we should have used in-line functions. The macros themselves are > not attractive due to the backslashes and other constraints, but should > not be so difficult to understand if you just think of them as inline > functions, and are not so difficult to debug through if you (as we did) > use the makefile to expand them for debuggable code. I'm glad Doug has > now determined that function call overhead is so low there's no reason > not to modularize code into functions (inlined or not). > > Doug saying that I "did my best to obscure the code" is at best a gross > distortion. Without my involvement, HP would never have funded the Judy > project in the first place. Doug and I worked long and hard together > for more than two years, along with several others who joined the > project. It was a productive collaboration of great diversity. For > example, where Doug had a ruthless focus on performance, I worked hard > on concepts, terminology, documentation, infrastructure, build, test, > and presentation issues so that together we could articulate a quality > product. We wrestled with innumerable data structure and algorithm > conundrums to create Judy IV as we learned and re-learned the best way > to solve a myriad of problems. > > Cheers, > Alan Silverstein > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Judy-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/judy-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Judy-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/judy-devel
