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by Qwertious 4008 days ago
Why are you automatically obliged to fix it JUST because you mentioned it? If they just didn't know in the first place then everyone would have benefited, and if they did then something was clearly seriously broken in that development community.
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the_why_of_y 4008 days ago
Because in FLOSS, nobody is entitled to a pony.

Besides, the glibc developers did optimize memory and string operations, and the result was that people moaned because their buggy Adobe Flash players crashed because they were relying on particular implementation details of previous un-optimized implementations of memcpy that were explicitly not guaranteed by C99.

http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/

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TimSchumann 4008 days ago
And from what I've heard, not that I would know, you've just described the rise of LLVM.
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