Re: [Lib2geom-devel] C-arrays

[mathog <ma...@ca...>]

On 06-Nov-2013 08:39, Nathan Hurst wrote:

> But that code has been used for a decade now with no evidence of
> problems, I would be loath to change it purely for stylistic reasons.

AKA "if it ain't broken, don't fix it".

It is almost always true that that there is some new language feature 
not used in code that has been around for a while.  (For any type of 
program, and any language.)  In general it is simply a waste of effort 
modifying existing code to use new language features if doing so will 
not immediately improve the performance or stability of the code.  
Neither of which seems to be the case here.

Think about it, you can put a lot of work into rewriting 2geom, and when 
all is said and done, everything calling it will get exactly the same 
results at the same speed as they do now.  So why bother?

Regards,

David Mathog
ma...@ca...
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech