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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:18:20 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystr.RWSystems.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Compiler likes tabs better than spaces?? (was Re: ..logging (the problem is fixed))
Message-ID:  <199810082218.QAA29900@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.981008112249.7204D-100000@rwsystr.RWSystems.net>
References:  <4.1.19981007131531.0408a100@mail.lariat.org> <Pine.LNX.3.91.981008112249.7204D-100000@rwsystr.RWSystems.net>

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[ Moved to -chat, as this is really not security related... ]

> Tabs in source can compile a *lot* faster in large C++ source and
> headers. I also used it over NFS to do *nix programming before I got
> my vi-feet...

Now, this is one of those statements I *really* like to see, since it
has no basis on factual data.  Using tabs vs. spaces won't make your
program compile measurably faster.  Whoever told you this was smoking
something....



Nate

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