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Is this very useful?

Is this very useful?

Posted Apr 15, 2010 17:41 UTC (Thu) by quartz (guest, #37351)
In reply to: Is this very useful? by Velmont
Parent article: The NO_BOOTMEM patches

Less code means less maintenance (mainly less time spent understanding code when something around that area breaks).

Less code with the same functionality and performance usually means happy developers, smaller code size in memory, and, on the long term, less bugs (yes, there are always exceptions).


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