From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 12 18:47:46 2004
From: Christian Loose <christian.loose () hamburg ! de>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:47:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Static functions
Message-Id: <200401121947.46379.christian.loose () hamburg ! de>
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Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 19:50 schrieb Tim Jansen:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 14:56, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > The reason for using these is optimization - especially when it comes to
> > libraries. And since almost all of KDE is made up of libraries, this
> > really is important.
>
> Wouldn't it be cleaner to fix the tools instead of losing another piece of
> C++ functionality and rewrite the source for this? You could probably go on
> with optimizations that fix compiler problems until you have plain C.
>
> bye...

Some believe that it's not only good for optimization:
http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8042/cuj0002meyers/

Christian