[PATCH] ipsum_calc_block: Optimize size and speed

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Martin Mares <mj at ucw.cz> wrote on 2010/04/23 23:11:15:
>
> Hello!
>
> > It seems to me that you are so afraid to break something for your precious
> > IXPs that you rather drop user contributions than integrate them unless
> > the changes has been proven correct. I, as a developer, has to do all the
> > work, testing  and "prove" that the change is "good". My view would be
> > the work load should be shared by the community, this will help moving
> > BIRD forward much quicker.
>
> A necessary step in sharing your work with the community is to convince
> the community that the change you want to introduce is useful and/or
> interesting.

I did that, it is simpler and performs better or equal than the current code.

>
> Why else should they spend any effort on helping to develop and test your
> change?
>
> Actually, if you look inside the archive of this mailing list, you will
> be surprised that most people have had it very easy to get their feature

Lets hope this was the odd exception then.

> accepted. Perhaps "this feature would be useful for my routers" is a sounder
> argument that "this will boost the performance, but I won't tell you how and
> why". Perhaps the problem does not lie in the BIRD community, but in your
> attitude...

I didn't expect so much pushback from what was a simple improvement, both
performance wise and cleaner code. Instead there was don't touch working code
even if it is ugly/worse and you must prove beyond doubts that it improves
performance. Pretty impossible and not worth the amount of work I would have
to put in just for such a small change.

>
> Maybe you could take a look at the development process of some other projects
> which aim for producing high quality code, like for example the Linux kernel.

Been there, done that, still do that.