From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] ss: created formatters for json and hr Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:16:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20150924151630.28129cdb@urahara> References: <1441913708-15532-1-git-send-email-matthias.tafelmeier@gmx.net> <1441913708-15532-3-git-send-email-matthias.tafelmeier@gmx.net> <20150923162650.148fe95b@urahara> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "hagen@jauu.net" , "shemminger@osdl.org" , "fw@strlen.de" , "edumazet@google.com" , "daniel@iogearbox.net" To: Matthias Tafelmeier Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f50.google.com ([209.85.220.50]:34015 "EHLO mail-pa0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753152AbbIXWQV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:16:21 -0400 Received: by padhy16 with SMTP id hy16so84836769pad.1 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:16:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:43:46 +0000 Matthias Tafelmeier wrote: > > Maybe it is time to rewrite it in a better language ;-) > > I did not get that. Do you mean iproute2? I meant that the amount of formatting and string processing in ss is getting to be a significant fraction of the code. Languages other C provide more OO and better string handling that might help. But mostly it was a joke.