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Judging by how much Binder's "elegant design" of BeOS pedigree was praised, I was expecting it to be quite good. I just had a look at binder.c and the ref coun
by blub 7y ago
Judging by how much Binder's "elegant design" of BeOS pedigree was praised, I was expecting it to be quite good.
I just had a look at binder.c and the ref counting and locking in general looks like a nightmare to maintain. This reminds me of how much I hate resource management in C.
- jumpingmice 7y agoMost of the BeOS was written in C++. Nobody at Be would have tolerated the code quality you find in Linux binder.