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Why are you automatically obliged to fix it JUST because you mentioned it? If they just didn't know in the first place then everyone would have benefited, and i
by Qwertious 11y ago
Why are you automatically obliged to fix it JUST because you mentioned it? If they just didn't know in the first place then everyone would have benefited, and if they did then something was clearly seriously broken in that development community.
- TimSchumann 11y agoAnd from what I've heard, not that I would know, you've just described the rise of LLVM.
- the_why_of_y 11y agoBecause in FLOSS, nobody is entitled to a pony. Besides, the glibc developers did optimize memory and string operations, and the result was that people moaned because their buggy Adobe Flash players crashed because they were relying on particular implementation details of previous un-optimized implementations of memcpy that were explicitly not guaranteed by C99. http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/ http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/