From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 12:22:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E561517B for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:22:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05785; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:22:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA01849; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:22:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:16:20 PST." Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:22:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1847.920492542@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob w rites: >> >> 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. This is entirely besides the point. We're talking about the cases where people are going trough several layers of topological excercise to pack strings into integer and bit fields rather than to pass them directly. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message