On Wed, Feb 6, 2013, at 06:25 AM, John Morris wrote:
> > Looking inside the old RT implementations, it is clear that one was > written first, and following implementations simply copied > <threads>_rtapi.c and <threads>_ulapi.c into new files and replaced the > RT system-specific code, a small portion of the overall code. A 'diff > -u rtl_rtapi.c rtai_rtapi.c | diffstat' shows that 590 of ~1750 lines > differ between the two rtapi implementations, and ~200 of ~840 lines in > ulapi (the important differences are actually much smaller). That is exactly how it happened (I was the guilty party). It bugged me a bit at the time, but not enough to make me do it right. > Benefits > > It doesn't simply please my aesthetic senses to chop out 4k lines of > duplicated code! The resulting merged boilerplate and separated thread > system-specific code naturally form a clean break that makes it easy to > see what minimal code is needed to add a new RT system. The RTAI code > is only 275 lines, compared to about 1700 lines of more dense and > daunting pre-cleanup code. That is a huge improvement. > If you've made it this far, I'm admirous of your high pain threshold and > also grateful for taking the work seriously. I'm grateful to you for doing the work! > > John -- John Kasunich jmkasun...@fastmail.fm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
