From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932173AbWF3OMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932486AbWF3OMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:12:38 -0400 Received: from ninilchik.quanstro.net ([66.92.161.167]:49058 "EHLO medicine-bow.quanstro.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932173AbWF3OMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:12:38 -0400 From: erik quanstrom To: Jan Engelhardt , Latchesar Ionkov CC: Eric Sesterhenn , Russ Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net References: <1151535167.28311.1.camel@alice> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [Patch] Dead code in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c Message-Id: <20060630141220.BDD1B1B4F87@medicine-bow.quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:12:20 -0500 (CDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org saving ten bytes once is not a good reason to do much of anything in an era of multi-megabyte embedded devices. i think the argument against code written in speculation is that it confuses what the code does right now, may never be used and if used, may be used in a situation that masks a real error. - erik Jan Engelhardt writes | | | > The comment is longer than the 10 bytes we save :) | | But comments are not compiled into the final binary, | which is what I wanted to point out. So you always | save your 10 bytes in the object file. | | | Jan Engelhardt