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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:01:31 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, jake@locore.ca, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   style(9) bike shed, 371st edition (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 critical.c src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h critical.h src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s icu_vector.s src/sys/kern kern_fork.c kern_proc.c kern_switch.c src/sys/alpha/alph)
Message-ID:  <20020403100131.Q26122@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzplmc5u6rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20020402154308.F46914-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> <xzplmc5u6rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Tuesday,  2 April 2002 at 23:31:38 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> writes:
>>>     Even though disk space is no longer at a premium, it still offends
>>>     people's sensibilities when they see a source file bloated to 2x or 3x
>>>     its normal size when spaces are used to handle deep indentations.  So
>>>     tabs (fixed at 8) still have meaning.
>> Well, I havn't been around since those days, but disk space is cheap now,
>> so I'm not sure that whole file bloat b/c of spaces being used instead of
>> tabs is valid either, at least not anymore.
>
> Using spaces instead of tabs, especially in headers, has a noticeable
> (negative) impact on compilation speed.

Do you have figures?

Greg
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