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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 11, 2011 4:06 UTC (Sun) by joern (subscriber, #22392)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by marcH
Parent article: Quotes of the week

> As a driver developer, are you supposed to reboot every time you want to run a new line of code?

Mostly you are supposed to write good code. ;)

I personally actually like to reboot every time I want to run a new line of code. With a good setup, it should take on the order of 30s, including compile time, to do so. Reducing this time by using modules may have the drawback of sometimes not working (crashed kernel) and sometimes giving bad results (different performance depending on cache warmth, state from previous tests affecting the current test, etc.).

But if modules work well for you, go for it!


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