Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 07:44:55 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c Message-ID: <36DDBB67.851B5D43@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903031215150.25376-100000@feral-gw>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > 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. Well, maybe. I'll like to propose the following test. It doesn't really prove anything, and even statistical results would be pretty much meaningless in direct answer to your question (ie, it would not show that strings and identifiers are always easier to understand, but would show that that is the case for most people). Here is the test. Please identify the action of the following signals. They are listed here first by numbers, then by identifiers. I have taken the liberty to change the ordering of the identifiers, so you can't claim the numbers helped you identifying them. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SIGIO SIGXCPU SIGXFSZ SIGVTALRM SIGPROF SIGWINCH SIGINFO SIGUSR1 SIGUSR2 SIGHUP SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGILL SIGTRAP SIGABRT SIGALRM SIGTERM SIGURG SIGSTOP SIGTSTP SIGCONT SIGCHLD SIGTTIN SIGTTOU SIGIOT SIGEMT SIGFPE SIGKILL SIGBUS SIGSEGV SIGSYS SIGPIPE Send the results to your conscience. ;-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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