[RFC] named pipe message-mode design

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 21:06:55 CST 2009


2009/3/5 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> writes:
>>
>>>  i would imagine that inefficient is the _last_ thing on the list of
>>> priorities.  "technically correctly fulfilling the semantics" i would
>>> imagine would be the highest priority.
>>>
>>>  "efficient" and "nice" can always be done later, yes?
>>
>> No, in many cases efficiency needs to be taken into account in the
>> design phase. You can't just add it later.
>
>  sure you can.  by redesigning.

So you're saying that your original design is wasted effort? If it CAN
be redesigned to be efficient, nice, sensible and correct, it's worth
doing that from the start, especially in a big project such as Wine.



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