Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 00:33:32 +0000 From: David Holland <dholland-t...@netbsd.org> Message-ID: <20170716003332.gb9...@netbsd.org>
| What, exactly, is gained by being gratuitously different from the | reference implementation of a concept? Depends upon the nature of the reference implementation - if it is something in widespread use, that is widely accepted, there would be none. But if it is more of a concept implementation, a "look what the world could be like", then it is almost inevitable that implementations intended for actual use will differ in some, or even many, respects from the original concept. Real implementations need to fit with the rest of what exists, and be cheap enough, and reliable enough, and usable given users' expectations. kre