Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: alloca wars Message-ID: <1988Aug15.235452.1911@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <696@ns.UUCP> <697@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1988Aug7.002334.6987@utzoo.uucp> <2375@rtech.rtech.com> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 88 23:54:52 GMT In article <2375@rtech.rtech.com> daveb@llama.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: >Don't you just love the way the electronic communication helps make >generally reasonable people offensive? It's more than a bit out of line >to say the Sun programmer is incompetant... Who, me, offensive? Nah. :-) On the contrary, it is quite in line to say that some Sun programmers are incompetent; this is an established fact. (Some others are highly competent, but unfortunately they're not the whole story.) >There is no one correct answer. "Incompetence" is a unfairly glib way >of saying that one perfectly valid implementation isn't the one that >would be best for a particular application. Well, no, actually it was a shorthand way of saying that while this *might* be a case of implementation-application mismatch, it is much more likely that it's a case of programmer incompetence, or at least deliberate disregard of performance issues (which appears to be a widespread disease at Sun). -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu