Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall also a rule of thumb that one should not optimize code > prematurely. Before making a cost argument, it would be useful to see what > percentage of the source code is white space and how much of a savings > would occur if runs of spaces were converted to equivalent 8-column tabs. > I'd guess that it's comparable to the space wasted in the "slack" space at > the end of a file's last sector. Does anyone care enough about that issue > to do the analysis?
This is a really silly strawman. It's not at all about saving bytes. Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ and open source consulting
