On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote:
> Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > The academic argument for clean code is that it > > speeds up development. > > But isn't the deeper issue that this wasn't true > for FFmpeg five years ago and still isn't? > (Or in other words: That this was always an > "academic" argument...) > > Maybe because you didn't succeed making it "cleaner"? Example: libavfilter's API was radically simplified by Libav. Some FFmpeg devs (the usual suspects) were crying speedloss, but I'm fairly sure now everyone enjoys the fact that you can actually understand how libavfilter filtering and memory management works. Your claims are nothing but hypocrisy. Or maybe you just don't know better. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel