I'll interject one more 'done it' anecdote. The document processing system I've been working on for several years had several libraries in C. Very few issues co

I'll interject one more 'done it' anecdote. The document processing system I've been working on for several years had several libraries in C. Very few issues compared to the general logical bugs. Integrating the Judy arrays library was a huge performance benefit in a number of areas.