alloca wars

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2375 at rtech.rtech.com> daveb at 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).
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