"SteveKing" <steveking@gmx.ch> writes:
> > 1) Use __cdecl and DEF files. The advantages are that it doesn't require
> any
> > modifications to the source, that it might lead to slightly faster load
> > times if ordinals are specified, and that __cdecl is the default calling
> > convention for C and C++, so programmers wouldn't have to specify it
> > explicity or wonder which convention to use.
>
> That would require extra work. And I think that would lead to problems
> whenever the DEF file doesn't match the __cdecl in the source. Or can
> you guarantee that those are always in sync?
I am nearly -1 on DEF files. Unnecessary maintainance burden.
> What I don't quite get in this discussion is the part about speed. Todays
> computers are fast enough so that no one would ever notice the difference.
> There are no functions which are used multiple times, usually a client
> only calls one 'command' (like svn_client_update() or others) once and
> then the work is done inside the dll which takes the most time. So those
> few microseconds for the call itself really doesn't matter.
Actually, if we're talking about making DLLs for each Subversion
library, there are quite a few of them, and there are many, many calls
across those APIs, between the libraries themselves. Still, the point
about modern hardware is a valid one.
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Received on Fri Mar 21 15:57:41 2003