Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

[Jeff Garzik]

Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:44:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Tim Hockin wrote:
> >
> > > So you end up with the mindset of, for example, "if it's text it's XML".
> > > You have to parse everything as XML, when simple parsers would be tons
> > > faster and simpler and smaller.
> >
> > hehehe.  One of the reasons why I like XML is that you don't have to 
> > keep cloning new parsers.
>
>
> .... if you don't mind bloating your application:
>
> % ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
> 4224 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a

GLib's is a lot smaller :)

	Jeff



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