From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 14:42:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCAE37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A94643FBF for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 25EB1530A; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:42:05 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jonathon McKitrick From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:42:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030422172549.GA65023@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> (Jonathon McKitrick's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:25:49 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <20030422132906.GB64101@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <444r4qmp6n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030422172549.GA65023@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Code layout and debugging time X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:42:09 -0000 Jonathon McKitrick writes: > Sixteen percent would mean every 6 lines or so. That seems far too dense in > my opinion. Even when you look at hardware drivers in the kernel, there are > often only 1 or 2 lines together, separated from the rest by comments and > whitespace. I just don't get how debug time would 'increase dramatically.' That is way too much, and bde would have your nads for breakfast if you committed anything like that. Simply put, too much whitespace is just as bad as no whitespace at all. Imagine reading a book where every sentence is a separate paragraph; paragraph breaks become worthless because they no longer serve to group sentences together. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org