From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A little coding style nugget of joy
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:11:21 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709200610180.15327@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F23B77.40809@draigBrady.com>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Matt LaPlante wrote:
> > Since everyone loves random statistics, here are a few gems to give you a break from your busy day:
> >
> > Number of lines in the 2.6.22 Linux kernel source that include one or more trailing whitespaces: 135209
> > Bytes saved by removing said whitespace: 151809
> > Lines in the (unified) diff: 455437
> > Size of the diff: 15M
> > People brave enough to submit the patch: ~0
>
> It's gradually getting better so:
> http://lwn.net/2001/1129/a/whitespace.php3
and you wouldn't *believe* how much space you can save by getting rid
of all that annoying indentation. and don't even get me *started* on
those comments ...
rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 16:34 Matt LaPlante
2007-09-19 17:13 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 21:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-09-19 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 21:39 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2007-09-20 9:20 ` Pádraig Brady
2007-09-20 10:11 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2007-09-20 14:04 ` Scott Preece
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