Re: [Qemu-devel] [EXTERNAL]Re: Proposal for amending TCG interface naming scheme

[David Hildenbrand]

On 20.08.19 18:38, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
>> From: BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden>
>>
>> Sorry to comment on this without really knowing what is it about but maybe
>> my view is not completely useless if this is to be understood by people
>> who don't know anything about it. If it is not useful just ignore.
> 
> No, Zoltan, to the contrary, you hit the nail - the good interface scheme
> should look natural even for people not acquainted with the gory details
> of the area.
> 

I just got familiar with the terminology and everything I read so far
confuses me even more (gather/pick/extend/extl/shrd). No, I don't like that.

> I have a couple of students, and these names just don't stick to their
> minds, they just want to run away from using them. There seems to be
> an "entry barrier" that is self-imposed by us.
> 
> All those functions seem to me underused in QEMU code. Partially
> because some of them are relatively new, but for sure partially because
> of some kind of disorganization of the naming.
> 
> Aleksandar
> 

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb