“The fact is, any time anybody makes up a new locking mechanism, THEY ALWAYS GET IT WRONG. Don't do it.”
Anonymous reviewer on Patch to an operating system kernel.
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See all code review“So leave locking to the pro's. They _also_ got it wrong, but they got it wrong several years ago, and fixed up their sh*t.”
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“I hate code that has #ifdef's. It's a major design mistake, and shows that the person who coded it didn't think of it as _one_ problem, but as two.”
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“LGTM ! Only 1M line changed, approved.”
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“And by "garbage" I really mean it. This is stuff that nobody should ever send me, never mind late in a merge window.”
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“AND USING VLA'S IS ACTIVELY STUPID! It generates much more code, and much _slower_ code (and more fragile code), than just using a fixed key size would have done.”
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“NAK NAK NAK NAK! QAK! HAK! Crap code! Stop adding undocumented interfaces. Just stop it. Now. Geeze.”
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