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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Russell Turpin wrote:
> Adam Beberg:
> >Considering 90% of the fake job posting I see are for embedded systems or
> >device drivers - C still rules the world.
>
> There is a lot of C++ in the embedded world. With static object
> allocation and a few other programming techniques, performance
> differences disappear, but C++ gives a boost in development and
> maintainability.
Agreed, not much difference there. With C it just doesnt seem as wrong to
be crawling around in registers and things. Quite frankly you cant fit
_that_ big of a project into a 32K ROM, so large project issues dont matter
as much in the embedded world.
And in the realtime space, or when you have data coming in at 2Gbit/sec
[fibrechannel], every cycle DOES count.
> The real issue is compiler availability. Almost every embedded platform
> has C cross-compilers. Many have C++ compilers. But there is still a
> range of platforms that have the first but not the second. Or at least,
> that was the story a few years ago.
Definately still very very true. C++ compilers are still a rarity.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com

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>     >> > ##Remove: jeremy@alum.mit.edu##
>
>     Tim> Yuck: it got two 0.01's from embedding your email address at the
>     Tim> bottom here.
>
> Which suggests that tagging email addresses in To/CC headers should be
> handled differently than in message bodies?
I don't know whether it suggests that, but they would be tagged differently
in to/cc if I were tagging them at all right now.  If I were tagging To:
addresses, for example, the tokens would look like
'to:email addr:mit'
instead of
'email addr:mit'
as they appear when an email-like thingie is found in the body.  Whether
email addresses should be stuck in as one blob or split up as they are now
is something I haven't tested.