From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 18 11:30: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (unknown [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C3837B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0IJiIQ00677; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200101181944.f0IJiIQ00677@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Will Andrews Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:21:10 EST." <20010118072110.A431@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:44:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his 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] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message