Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Tuukka Toivonen <[email protected]> [2004-01-14 19:13:09 +0200]:

<snip>
> No! It's much easier to find bugs when the program really segfaults;
> the developer might not notice a message on console especially
> for GUI programs and a segfault forces him to fix the bug instead
> of postponing and forgetting whole thing.
If you like it better, you can leave it off. 

Well it was just an idea what could be done w/ the NULL pointers 
to make them more comfortable for some cases ...

<snip>
> And I was not talking about developers but end users. End users don't want
> debugging compiled in, but they do want a program that doesn't segfault.
Yes, but the user just wants a _working_ application :)


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