[pmjordan]

While we're at it, let's lobby our governments to ban all software innovation!

Seriously, I bet the operating system you're using relies on far more of that evil "cleverness" than the subject of this thread.

This whole thread reeks of thinly veiled ad hominem attacks to me.

[rbanffy]

Zed tends to do the ad-hominem part very well without any need for external help. And you are using a straw-man. I never came even close to advocate for banning all software innovation.

What I said, and repeat, is that if you want to introduce an expensive to maintain piece of code, you have to weight the added cost against the performance gain. In this case, the performance gain seems marginal, the assumption of usage envisioned seems wrong and the added complexity seems just pointless.

It's his project, his code and I am not even a Mongrel user. I offer this as a friendly piece of advice, from old programmer to young programmer.

You know: it doesn't matter if you are beam-racing a 6502 or writing networking code to run on 64-bit deeply pipelined processors, there are things that remain true. This is one of them.