From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Current status: important changes since 0.9.11
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:19:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E99F3F.8000006@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719195400.GA3249@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On 07/19/2013 09:54 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 09:49:42PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>> On 07/19/2013 08:53 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
>>> However I do also agree with you, and think simplicity/consistency
>>> possibly override reason #1 above, and #2 could easily be handled if
>>> some time is put into review and testing of the new code.
>>>
>>> Anyone else have opinions on the matter?
>>
>> According to what you said pathological compilers would be the problem here.
>
> Which comment are you referring to?
I could be wrong and it wasn't from you. Anyway, I still consider
supporting pathological compilers (that botch the usage of inline asm
badly) the only reason to use full-asm.
> This is code that runs once at startup and has no loops. There's
> really no way for it to be slow. The only issues are size and
> correctness.
We have many real life situations in which we spawn many processes in a
loop. Still I doubt it would be an issue.
lu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-19 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-19 16:12 Rich Felker
2013-07-19 18:39 ` Harald Becker
2013-07-19 18:53 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-19 19:40 ` Harald Becker
2013-07-19 19:49 ` Luca Barbato
2013-07-19 19:54 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-19 20:19 ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2013-07-19 20:26 ` Rich Felker
2013-07-19 20:36 ` Luca Barbato
2013-07-22 4:57 ` idunham
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