I assume people like Bork and Scott McNealy have better things to do than spend their time reading, and stealing ideas from, this thread, but, then again, who knows? ;)
It's almost a statistical certainty that Microsoft people are reading this thread.
Come on guys and gals, show your faces. :)
By the way, Gerald, I never responded to an earlier post of yours doubting me when I said that review of IE code vs. Windows code was absolutely impossible. Here's why it's impossible:
There are hundreds of little routines which will be duplicated in the IE code and the Windows code. For example, lists often need to be maintained in a particular order, necessitating a "sort" routine. Or several. Do you use the OS's sort routine or your own? Assuming the OS's sort routine is visible to outside applications, you suffer some speed penalties by using it but save code size. If you use your own, you get faster code, but it's larger. It also may save coding time to use OS routines. So how are you going to second guess that decision?
Lots of times, these decisions are made on the fly by the individual programmers with no review whatsoever. |
