Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:15:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        jdp@polstra.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c
Message-ID:  <199903032215.OAA32833@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903031215150.25376-100000@feral-gw> from Matthew Jacob at "Mar 3, 99 12:16:20 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Matthew Jacob writes:
> > 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.

OK. I say that strings and identifiers are (virtually) always easier
to use and/or understand than numbers. And I'm something. :-)

-Archie

___________________________________________________________________________
Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199903032215.OAA32833>