On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:46 +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Well, I guess I can understand that. Let me explain my misgivings. > Every time you reimplement something internally, it is prone to all the > bugs that the original has, with less scrutiny and a smaller testing base. > It seems like the kind of solution that lends itself to bitrot fairly > easily, so without a pressing reason, I tend to prefer using an already > available function in a well tested library.
Your logic is screwy. I didn't even look at the GMP implementation, I didn't even know it had one. So it isn't a "reimplementation" of that, so isn't prone to "all the bugs the original has". I actually based it on the FD_SET implementation, which is much older than the GMP one, and has about 30 years of testing. So by your metrics, is better than the one you are recommending. Now, I think that's enough time wasted on a pointless discussion. -trog
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