On 13/09/2016 16:25, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Not a crazy idea, but I lean against it. My problem is that threading is a serious defect attractor (as we have in fact seen in the async-DNS code).
I would not tar all threading architectures and designs with the async-DNS threading code brush. Looking at that code you have a good case however that is more of a result of that design than threading.
I'd take a good deal of persuading about the expected gain in performance before I'd accept the implied increase in expected defect rates.
Reading an ARM CortexA Programmer's Guide on Profiling today I came across a this comment, quoting ...
Donald Knuth once famously observed that “Premature optimization is the root of all evil”. Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
