In message <1A496451-166E-46F1-8363-19F117156FEE_at_mac.com>, Charles Swiger write s: >Apple has found that using inheritance is a big win for them: "In >addition, code reusability decreases the memory footprint of drivers; >drivers ported from Mac OS 9, for example, have been up to 75% >smaller in Mac OS X." Of course, it's easier to say such things then >to write the code, but Apple has achieved pretty good results from >the IOKit. Apple also has significantly better control over the hardware they have to write drivers for. That said, there is a lot of stuff which could be improved in our APIs. And I wouldn't mind getting a "C with classes" language with a couple of domain-specific extensions in the bargain. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Nov 09 2005 - 21:18:54 UTC
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