C common practice. (was: low level optimization)

[Richard Tobin]

In article <22636 at lanl.gov> jlg at cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>as huge numbers of separate source files.  The X11R4 version of
>xterm is distributed as 16 separate source files (even though it's
>a fairly small program that does most of its work by calling widgets).

13 of these contain code.  They contain an average of 17.3 procedures
each.

>Speaking of which, the widgets are distributed as over a hundred
>little .c files - mostly one per procedure.

One (or a very small number) of procedures per file is common for files
which are to be combined into a library, for obvious reasons.

>One file per procedure appears to be standard C practice to me.

10,000 line procedures, spaghetti gotos, and complete lack of
structure appear to be standard Fortran practice to me, but then
perhaps I know as much about that as you do about C practice.

-- Richard
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