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One reason to reimplement something on top is portability. The tradeoffs between portability and performance are hard.
by qznc 14y ago
One reason to reimplement something on top is portability. The tradeoffs between portability and performance are hard.
- fleitz 14y agoIt's still generally a bad idea, it's much better to write an interface and then provide multiple implementations that take advantage of the native features of the OS. I think we all remember the last that language that decided to be so portable they shipped their own reimplemented GUI toolkit with the standard library.
- Deestan 14y ago> it's much better to write an interface and then provide multiple implementations That is a reimplementation.