28 Sep
2005
28 Sep
'05
4:14 p.m.
Casper Hornstrup wrote:
Oh please don’t go there. Do you honestly think you
(in general) are
smarter at generating microprocessor instructions than a multi-million hour
compiler software?
In some places it does matter, especially in the kernel.
Splitting up a 200 lines functions in 10 helper functions IMO is ugly,
especially when those helper functions are only used by that one single
function. To avoid code duplication I *do* create helper functions, but
most often only for things that can be shared with other code. I don't
have problems with functions with a few hundreds of lines of code as
long as the coding style is acceptable and it is sufficiently documented
with comments.
However, we're going off topic...
- Thomas