On Friday 26 August 2011 15:32:37 Hrushi Mehendale wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Thank you very much for your frank comments about the code.
Another comment about your mail: Don't send html to the mailing list... it
will be dropped.
> Hopefully, with help from experienced programmers such as you and many
> others whom we may not even know, we would be able to improve the code
> quality. The prototype is just out of our research lab and as you pointed
> out, the code needs to be fine tuned now. Apart from building the prototype,
> majority of our efforts have been spent on porting LifeNet across different
> hardware and OS platforms, in order to validate our baseline claims of
> hardware and OS interoperability.
I doubt that it has something to do with fine tuning. There are just simple
things which you should not do: For example accessing memory after you free'd
the memory region.
> Do you have any suggestions for us to facilitate better interaction with the
> community, particularly to make sure LifeNet adhers to best programming
> practices / standards?
A nasty comment would be: learn coding
But honestly, you should get in contact with good kernel programmer which can
work for you. It is not a "community" thing, but understanding what you are
actually doing. I think those papers are a good example. You seem to
understand your problem and try to find a solution. But the problem is that
you are not the persons which understand the actual implementation stuff. So
maybe there is a operating system department at your university which has
experienced people and can help to implement your ideas.
Not that I have a problem with research code... but selling it to
organisations and knowing that it has ugly bugs seems not to be a good idea
(at least from my point of view).
Kind regards,
Sven
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