Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:58:45 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/compat-43 gethostid.3 setruid.3 sigpause.2 sigsetmask.2 sigvec.2 src/lib/libc/gen exec.3 getprogname.3 glob.3 setproctitle.3 syslog.3 src/lib/libc/gmon moncontrol.3 src/lib/libc/i386/sys i386_get_ioperm.2 ... Message-ID: <3B53E225.1D5D0E4F@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010716055144.216903E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <xzpofqkqw0y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010716185008.A33483@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpbsmkqpne.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:44:29AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Unnecessary whitespace, comments and preprocessor directives in > > > commonly used headers can have a significant effect on build times. > > I think you're being a little ridiculous here DES. I don't think you'd > > see a measurable difference in `make buildworld' times for the random > > trailing white space we are talking about here. > > This may be too small to measure, but removing superfluous comments > (particularly copyright notices) and whitespace from frequently used > headers makes a big difference. I have a script somewhere that > removes all comments and non-syntactically-significant whitespace from > /usr/include. This is not very good way to go, as comments in include files are often very handy when there is no or incomplete documentation on corresponding APIs. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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