Re: [exim-dev] RFC: Refactoring expand_string_internal

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: exim-dev
題目: Re: [exim-dev] RFC: Refactoring expand_string_internal
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Nico Erfurth wrote:

> I just looked through expand.c and saw that expand_string_internal grew
> a lot over the last 2 years. Currently it's 2359 lines long, expand.c is
> 5442 lines in total .... ;)


Yes, well, people keep on adding things. :-)

> What do others think about refactoring it a bit? Some larger chunks
> could be placed in subroutines, maybe all functionality should be
> factored out into single subroutines, called via a mapping-tables
> indexed by the expansion-type.


You'd lose some performance, of course, but how much that would affect
the overall performance of Exim I would not like to guess.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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