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Except "strong opinions" is not what happened here. He's being verbally abusive. I think it'd be helpful to be able to talk about this behaviour without needin
by richmarr 8y ago
Except "strong opinions" is not what happened here. He's being verbally abusive.
I think it'd be helpful to be able to talk about this behaviour without needing to suger-coat it as "opinions".
There are far less damaging ways to say exactly the same things as Tovalds says, and someone with his position in the community should know better.
Punch up if you like, not down.
- Gibbon1 8y agoI think he's not really ranting at the guy submitting the patch. He's ranting at the the c standard committee and the compiler maintainers with their optimization fetish[1]. While at the same time redrawing a line in the sand. [1] It's an open secret that most of the optimizations introduced in the last ten years provide no real benefit while making programs harder to reason about and trust. While at the same time the gcc backend is a trashfire. Hint, Microsoft's VC compiler produces better assembly code without any of these 'optimizations'