From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 2 13:31:47 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0542537B416; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 4F6655346; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:31:38 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kenneth Culver Cc: Matthew Dillon , Mike Barcroft , "M. Warner Losh" , , , 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 References: <20020402154308.F46914-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Apr 2002 23:31:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020402154308.F46914-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Culver 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