From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:45:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce Git.pm (v3) Message-ID: <20060623124539.GM21864@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:03:23AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski said that... > Perhaps Git.pm should provide also generic, pure Perl (and slower) > fallback implementation (when for some reason we cannot compile XS). I fiercely want to avoid this if there is any other possible way to go about it - this is a path to hell of massive code duplication and additional work, as the number of routines will grow. If it is question of spending many developer-hours uselessly duplicating code in a way that'll be much slower than possible anyway OR building with -fPIC... ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.