Backwards compatibility at any cost?

Posted Nov 18, 2024 6:18 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Backwards compatibility at any cost? by Cyberax
Parent article: The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array

Streams are *way* cool when you do them The Right Way.
They can also eat your machine's performance for breakfast (and have room left over) when you do them naïvely.