From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 12:19:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A6D14F89 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA25493; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:16:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Polstra Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c In-Reply-To: <199903031957.LAA78943@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Amen, brother! Get it said! People who claim that strings are > "too slow" would benefit greatly from spending a few days with the > profiler. Now I'll stir the other pot and say that performance isn't the issue- the issue is that there's nothing that says that strings and identifiers are always easier to use and/or understand than numbers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message