From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 15:18:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02981 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02902 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13109; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:18:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA29900; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:18:20 -0600 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:18:20 -0600 Message-Id: <199810082218.QAA29900@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Wyatt Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compiler likes tabs better than spaces?? (was Re: ..logging (the problem is fixed)) In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19981007131531.0408a100@mail.lariat.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Moved to -chat, as this is really not security related... ] > Tabs in source can compile a *lot* faster in large C++ source and > headers. I also used it over NFS to do *nix programming before I got > my vi-feet... Now, this is one of those statements I *really* like to see, since it has no basis on factual data. Using tabs vs. spaces won't make your program compile measurably faster. Whoever told you this was smoking something.... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message