Date: 02 Apr 2002 23:31:38 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, <jake@locore.ca>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 critical.c src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h critical.h src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s icu_vector.s src/sys/kern kern_fork.c kern_proc.c kern_switch.c src/sys/alpha/alph Message-ID: <xzplmc5u6rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020402154308.F46914-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <20020402154308.F46914-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> writes: > > Even though disk space is no longer at a premium, it still offends > > people's sensibilities when they see a source file bloated to 2x or 3x > > its normal size when spaces are used to handle deep indentations. So > > tabs (fixed at 8) still have meaning. > Well, I havn't been around since those days, but disk space is cheap now, > so I'm not sure that whole file bloat b/c of spaces being used instead of > tabs is valid either, at least not anymore. Using spaces instead of tabs, especially in headers, has a noticeable (negative) impact on compilation speed. We could speed buildworld up significantly by stripping comments and superfluous whitespace from the headers we install in /usr/obj. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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