netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] ss: created formatters for json and hr

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Message-ID: <20150924151630.28129cdb@urahara>
Date:	Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:16:30 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Matthias Tafelmeier <matthias.tafelmeier@....net>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hagen@...u.net" <hagen@...u.net>,
	"shemminger@...l.org" <shemminger@...l.org>,
	"fw@...len.de" <fw@...len.de>,
	"edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] ss: created formatters for json and hr

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:43:46 +0000
Matthias Tafelmeier <matthias.tafelmeier@....net> 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.
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