... small number of examples of "software perfection"? > > > >Posted by Russell Leighton on November ... might not be discernible from perfection... > > > >Posted by Bryan Cantrill on ... > Does Linux have any such examples true software perfection? This code ...

linux-kernel - Philippe Elie - Nov 15 2007 - 04:27

... (ala DTrace) has a notion of perfect code: http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/ ... a small number of examples of "software perfection"? > > Posted by Russell Leighton on November ... AM PST # Does Linux have any such examples true software perfection? - To ...

linux-kernel - Russell Leighton - Nov 14 2007 - 21:21

... (ala DTrace) has a notion of perfect code: > > http://blogs.sun.com/bmc ... small number of examples of "software perfection"? >> >> Posted by Russell Leighton on ... AM PST # > > Does Linux have any such examples true software perfection? > I dont ...

linux-kernel - Eric Dumazet - Nov 15 2007 - 02:29

... Gerdau wrote: > > This code is far to be perfect, some part ... a kernel developer. > > > That having said: > I really do like ... in case the author had coded a bug) ? That's the ... list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of ...

linux-kernel - Daniel Barkalow - Nov 15 2007 - 11:10

... Gerdau wrote: > > > This code is far to be perfect, some part ... it does that. Agreed! At work we used to have a ... -of-sync with the actual code... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert ... list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of ...

linux-kernel - Geert Uytterhoeven - Nov 17 2007 - 04:44

... , and its last fix > > of any flavor over three years ago: ... the glacial pace Solaris does, don't add any features to cyclics or ... think all of this talk of perfect code is just trolling by ... list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a ...

linux-kernel - David Miller - Nov 14 2007 - 21:33

... nook and cranny of the Linux kernel. Code sits untouched for 6+ ... it's perfect and bug free, but rather because Sun simply does not have the environment and resources with ... make the kinds of ongoing improvements Linux can. The things Sun is trying ...

linux-kernel - David Miller - Nov 15 2007 - 03:11

... This code is far to be perfect, some part is outdated, ... a kernel developer. That having said: I really do like ... anyway) comments when looking at code and probably concepts I'm ... this type of comment. IMO any casual reader not familiar with ...

linux-kernel - Michael Gerdau - Nov 15 2007 - 09:16

Michael Gerdau wrote: > That having said: > I really do like such obvious (as ... certainly am. Obvious comments explaining _what_ the code is doing are annoying. They're fluff ... from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a ...

linux-kernel - Chris Friesen - Nov 15 2007 - 13:05

... would say this code was OK 10 years ago. I would have expected 1997 compilers to already do these ... idea. For divisions at least Linux also actively does this. On the other ... this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a ...

linux-kernel - Andi Kleen - Nov 15 2007 - 03:43