From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 12:23:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7A215514 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA05437; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA78979; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:23:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:23:35 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > 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. They are a lot more extensible, though. With strings, you generally have to modify and recompile only the portion of the code that implements new functionality. The client code doesn't have to be modified or even relinked. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message