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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:22:22 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c 
Message-ID:  <1847.920492542@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:16:20 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903031215150.25376-100000@feral-gw> 

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903031215150.25376-100000@feral-gw>, Matthew Jacob w
rites:
>> 
>> Amen, brother!  Get it said!  People who claim that strings are
>> "too slow" would benefit greatly from spending a few days with the
>> profiler.
>
>Now I'll stir the other pot and say that performance isn't the issue- the
>issue is that there's nothing that says that strings and identifiers are
>always easier to use and/or understand than numbers.

This is entirely besides the point.  We're talking about the cases where
people are going trough several layers of topological excercise to pack
strings into integer and bit fields rather than to pass them directly.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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