Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:44:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU Message-ID: <200101181944.f0IJiIQ00677@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:21:10 EST." <20010118072110.A431@puck.firepipe.net>
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> > That's one of the big reasons that we're 4.x based right now rather
> > than 3.x based, despite 4.x's slightly larger memory footprint. That
> > and 4.x's much better c++ compiler.
>
> Well, Warner, I've never done embedded systems. So, tell me, do they
> actually use any C++ code in embedded systems? C++ has a rather high
> overhead as far as disk space & memory goes. I would imagine that 99%+
> of embedded systems do not use C++ code except perhaps for a very small
> amount of the code.
You have a very vivid imagination.
Unfortunately, imagination isn't very helpful here; the whole idea is to
do stuff that's actually useful, not just what we'd imagine might be
useful. And in that regard, a *lot* of application programming (which
includes programming for embedded systems) is done using c++ compilers.
--
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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