On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:31:23AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:27 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: > > > On 12/07/2014 12:34, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > >This joke is bad. The C++ version is worse in every way. > > > > > > I concur with everything you have said in your message. Moral of story: it > > > is very, very easy to introduce bloat using C++, and using a higher level > > > language does not automatically lead to better code quality. > > > > +1. Now the question is, how do we come out of this mess? Shall we redo > > it in C again? Polish C++ version? Merge it with w(1) as suggested? > > > > ./danfe > > > > It is in no way established that any kind of "mess" exists. All we have > is some people who appear to hate C++ expressing their opinions about > how they hate C++. All the whining about how many more bytes the > compiled code is or many milliseconds something takes to compile don't > add up to any actual problem. > > My opinion is that the original commit message was exactly correct: The > code was rewritten to be cleaner and easier to understand and maintain. > We need more of the same. >
Go back and re-read Bruce's email. The massive compile-time pessimization caused by clang needs to be addressed before more C++ code is introduced into src/ -- Steve _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
