Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> >   Abstracting the input file parser, and additionally the command-line
> > parser, gave many benefits.

> I am not denying that there are potential benefits at first sight, what I am
> saying is they are completely outweight by the drawbacks.

  That contradicts completely my experience. Our parser system was
flexible, enhanceable and fast.
  A more unabstract hardcoded solution would have been rigid and very
laborious to enhance, most probably giving no measurable speed benefits.

> Chris Cason and me (I did the design, he profiled and tweaked it), I think I
> have successfully demonstrated I know really well how to deliver
> high-performance code.

  You said elsewhere that the point was not the performance but the
manageability.

  "I used this solution and it proved to be very fast" is not a proof
of anything relevant. It only proves that that specific solution is fast.
It doesn't prove that other more flexible solutions are not equally fast.

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                                                          - Warp

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