Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:53:46 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: silby@silby.com, njl@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c Message-ID: <20021113.215346.90827277.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021113204503.GI9006@vega.vega.com> References: <200211132012.gADKCQxr062768@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0211131528010.32919-100000@niwun.pair.com> <20021113204503.GI9006@vega.vega.com>
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Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:32:13PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
: >
: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:
: >
: > > njl 2002/11/13 12:12:26 PST
: > >
: > > Modified files:
: > > bin/sleep sleep.c
: > > Log:
: > > Remove getopt and strtol dependencies, reducing size of static exe.
: > > Preserve older desired behavior, accept [+-]*[0-9]*\.[0-9]*
: > > Remove a few unnecessary casts.
: >
: > Please don't commit crap like this. While having smaller binaries might
: > be nice, being entered into an obfuscated C contest is not one of the
: > goals of FreeBSD.
:
: I fully agree - HDD space is pretty cheap today, while embedded folks
: should use other means to reduce footprint (e.g crunchgen). Actually
: in the case of crunchgen this commit worsens situation, as the code
: is no longer shared.
It also makes the dynamic binary larger for the folks that have / and
/usr on the same partition and dynamically link /sbin and /bin. Much
more bang for the buck that these silly micro-optimizations. So this
is a negative thing as far as I'm concerned. :-(
Warner
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