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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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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