Developers and getting them to improve their code.

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 3:22 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 15:03, you wrote:
> > >    There are some very good books about optimisation available.
> > And at the end of this list we could list some books that people have
> > recomended.  P.S. I looked a few months ago, but found mostly C
> > optimization books.  Do you know of a C++ book that you recomend?
>
>   I don't know of a C++ one off hand, but most of the really important
> optimisations tend to be language independent I think.  Keeping the
> complexity of code down, etc

=46rom your comment and others I would have to say that we agree that a l=
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isn't a good idea, but pointers to well written thought out books would b=
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better.  The best general coding book I know of is Code Complete.  Design=
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debatable between many and I havn't found a C++ optimization book.

> > >    We do try to remove these classes as they are obsolete.  Sometim=
es
> > > are goals are not common though.  In particular, KSocket includes a=
 lot
> > > of functionality that QSocket doesn't - built in socks handling, bu=
ild
> > > in ipv6 support, etc.
> >
> > Glad to hear.  Anyone want to put together a list of the current over
> > lapping classses?
>
>    BTW they can't be removed until KDE 4 of course. ;)

Oh of course, but it is better to start work right now sense it will take=
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heck of a lot of work to remove them.

-Benjamin Meyer