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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:02:53PM CEST, Jeremy Linton wrote:I would describe it as, "fast but brittle". I've been monitoring this list long enough to see patches rejected because they slow a path down by a dozen cycles or so. That kind of change isn't even measurable in any real application. I find this especially silly when there are other things in the same path that are implemented so poorly that a few changes could significantly improve the overall performance. There are places where a rewrites could change a problem from O(N) to O(log N).From monitoring this mailing list for a while it appears apparent that certain people pride themselves in rejecting any patch which improves the robustness of glibc.
I would describe it rather as not trading performance for hiding application bugs.
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