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From: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Michael Offel <Michael.Offel@web.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:21:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJNQ0svqH9wkbrRpJ-prXH4ue1uz0nG1jqJYkd3WtUjL7GN2EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1gEx0_A+BQfJLQ1jppc=-qS1DwruR_wXsP-ctqZGGnjA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

> > My overall suggestion is to begin a complete rewrite, inspired by the old
> > code rather than moving a lot of "known to be somehow functional" around.
>
> This essay is old but still relevant, I think:
>
>  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>


+1

More code documentation would be helpful, and so would making the interfaces
more understandable/readable, and getting rid of the manual locking
(especially in client code!), but I don't see how that would warrant a
complete rewrite.

Some refactoring would be much safer than trying to reproduce every nook and
cranny in a rewrite.

re:4) I also don't see why boost would be a 'nonstandard dependency'. From
what I understand, a large part of the new C++0x standard is derived from
boost. Also C++ compilers are getting faster and more smart all the time, so
I absolutely don't see "build speed" as a goal.

re:6) I've already submitted a few pull requests that replace hardcoded
magic values with constants. Moving the constants to a config file is not
needed IMO because the end-user doesn't need to change them.

JS

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-10 22:37 [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality Michael Offel
2011-07-10 23:07 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-10 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-10 23:36 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-11  2:01 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-12  4:13   ` Alan Grimes
2011-07-12  5:19     ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-11  9:33 ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-12  3:31   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-12  7:21   ` John Smith [this message]
2011-07-12 22:50   ` Michael Offel
2011-07-12 21:47 Michael Offel
2011-07-12 23:40 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-07-13  0:17 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-13 11:50   ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-13 13:04     ` Andy Parkins
2011-07-13 18:37       ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-13 21:41         ` Andy Parkins

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