From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 16:53:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23001 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22968 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id QAA18567; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA13781; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:51:22 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id RAA15510; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:51:21 -0600 Message-ID: <361D4FF9.F4A9CA63@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:51:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams CC: James Wyatt , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler likes tabs better than spaces?? (was Re: ..logging (the problem is fixed)) References: <4.1.19981007131531.0408a100@mail.lariat.org> <199810082218.QAA29900@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > [ 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.... Or compiling on an NFS mount over a 300-baud PPP link. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message