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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The no goto religion
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-08-04 3:10:08
Message-ID: 46B3EE10.2040508 () acm ! org
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Matt Newell wrote:
> You are wasting peoples time with crap statements like this.

Lets try to get this straight.  Are you saying that Donald Knuth's paper
is crap?

> You have no data to back up this assertion,

No, I have a published paper written by Donald Knuth.

> and with my current understanding of the nature of most application
> code, I would say it makes no discernable difference. There may be a
> handlefull of critical loops in KDE's code that could marginally
> benefit from a restructure using goto, but overall IT DOESN'T MATTER.
> 
Read the paper, it says that you are mistaken.

> If this issue is so important to you, then I challenge you to find a
>  single code path in KDE that can be modified to use goto that will 
> show a noticeable performance improvement to the user.

An interesting straw man.  However, this only illustrates that you fail
to understand my point.

-- JRT

 
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