[linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

[Chris Cannam]

On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 21:45, eviltwin69 at cableone.net wrote:
> then processing speed becomes extremely important.  There have been
> some very good points made in this discussion and I will definitely
> investigate some of them.  My problem here is that I've heard the
> same type of thing from companies and universities for way too long. 

Well, that's the thing.  Most of the people in this discussion are 
saying true things, and the context is the reason they don't agree.

I write in C++ these days and I particularly like the capability Paul 
mentioned of switching containers after the fact.  But I've also worked 
on high-volume hydrographic and borehole data (although not as high 
volume as you're talking about) and much of the best and fastest 
software I worked on was in FORTRAN.  It was well structured and well 
commented, and it was very readable and perfectly good code.


Chris