From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 14:22: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bubba.whistle.com (s205m7.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A4014EC5 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:20:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA32833; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:15:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199903032215.OAA32833@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Mar 3, 99 12:16:20 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:15:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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