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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:50:08 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        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:  <20010716185008.A33483@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpofqkqw0y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:44:29AM %2B0200
References:  <20010716055144.216903E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <xzpofqkqw0y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:44:29AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> writes:
> > For man pages it is semi-functional; it isn't as bad as empty lines,
> > but it can screw up formatting sometimes.  For .[ch] files it's more
> > space-saving than anything else, but, as already discussed, it may not
> > be worth it for the extra space taken up in the repo.
> 
> 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.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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