From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 10:01:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E10B16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C2143D2D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at ([212.33.58.27]) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AzJd5-0006PJ-Vz; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:01:00 +0100 From: Daniela To: Narvi Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:55:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200403050615.55106.dgw@liwest.at> <20040305155015.Y38020@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20040305155015.Y38020@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403051855.35905.dgw@liwest.at> cc: Johnson David cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:01:02 -0000 On Friday 05 March 2004 13:51, Narvi wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniela wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 23:12, Johnson David wrote: > > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:40 pm, Daniela wrote: > > > > Cross platform applications are slower than apps that are optimized > > > > for one particular platform. I know what I'm speaking of. What are > > > > the extended features of a platform good for, when you can't use them > > > > because another platform doesn't have them? > > > > > > Not necessarily true. You won't be able to perform any platform > > > specific optimizations, but in general cross platform code is not any > > > slower than platform specific code. Three examples: NetBSD, Linux > > > kernel, Qt. Neither NetBSD nor Linux are considered "slow" by any > > > stretch of the imagination. Qt is impresively fast, and is only called > > > "sluggish" by biased trolls. > > > > I'm not speaking of your average code, I'm speaking of high-speed > > assembly language programs. > > and how many millions of lines of that have you written and maintained? > Are you sure it would not be faster if it was re-written in C and compiled > ? It would be faster to write and maintain (at least for most people), but it would not run faster. C is fine for projects other than fast, small libraries. I also like shellscript, but only if speed and size are not critical. I have not even written a million code lines yet, as I'm only 16 years old and have one and a half year of programming experience. But I love that low-level stuff so much that I already think in ASM. I did not intend to troll around or start another holy war, I was just expressing my opinion.