| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dave Held <dave(dot)held(at)arrayservicesgrp(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :) |
| Date: | 2005-04-22 17:05:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20050422170542.GC18226@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:56:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Held" <dave(dot)held(at)arrayservicesgrp(dot)com> writes:
> > Yeah, that's good news too, though it definitely helps that
> > Postgres is written in C. Most of the conformance improvements
> > are in the C++ front-end and the C++ Standard Library. Still
> > no export though. I personally believe that projects should
> > move to C++ when possible, but I understand that there is still
> > a perception that C is fundamentally faster.
>
> I dunno about "fundamentally faster", but "fundamentally more stable"
> I'd agree with. C++ has never recovered from being a moving target
> for so long. For a project with any serious ambitions of portability,
> it's a pretty risky choice.
Why don't we rewrite Postgres in D?
:-D
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"Pensar que el espectro que vemos es ilusorio no lo despoja de espanto,
sólo le suma el nuevo terror de la locura" (Perelandra, CSLewis)
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