Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.

Ian Molton [off-list ref] writes:

Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin <at> gmail.com> writes:

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When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
1. Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about 
portability, it's BS.

No gain from C++.

Also, I don't know when Dmitri written his post, but git uses its own
string manipulation mini-library, named strbuf, at least since end of 2007
(Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt was added as stub on 2007-11-24).
 

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in the *real world* rewriting Git in assembly would be like  
painting a house using a single horse hair instead of a paint brush  
or roller. Your SHA-1 example is a perfect example of where you  
benefit from doing a tiny embellished detail using the single hair  
(assembly) and leave all the rest in C.

Sidenote: block-sha1 implementation is C plus smidgeon of assembly via
'asm'.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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