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The problem is not the doing it in C, but the precisely matching the behavior of some existing code.
by tedunangst 3y ago
The problem is not the doing it in C, but the precisely matching the behavior of some existing code.
- nijave 3y agoI wonder how hard it is to just compile the perl (as a library from the perl codebase) vs calling the executable It seems that's a decent middle ground unless there's not a good API on the perl side
- jrockway 3y agoYup, absolutely. My take is that because you get to do something fun (start from scratch in a good language), the thousands of test cases you have to write and then run against the old implementation doesn't feel so bad. (I have to imagine a good amount of mailing list archeology will also be required. "How did Linux mess this up in 1992?" etc.)