Alpine Edge has switched to libressl

Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by pjmlp on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:27PM (#12694852)

I very much doubt it, as it goes against the C culture of micro-optimize each code line as it is written, without any feedback from a profiler because "the coder knows best!".

Since I know C (1992), I have seen quite a few times people write code to go fast as they can and apply compiler optimization tricks for use cases where it hardly matters.

Also many of the issues regarding UB go back to the early ANSI C days, when it was the wild west of C dialects outside UNIX and no vendor wanted to give up on their own extensions.

As for C and C++ compiler writers view on UB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG1OZ69H_-o

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Re:Alpine Edge has switched to libressl by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:07PM (#12695189)

I know perfectly well what their views are. I did describe them as sociopaths, remember? UB, to some degree, might be resonable. C-style nasal-demon UB, with propogating conditions so that you can't check for integer overflows reasonably is possible to live with, but insane.

C's culture of hyper-optimization is ridiculous. Unfortunately, while Rust may well eat C++'s lunch, there's very little that is competitve with C at the same level of abstraction, so for some work (kernel development, perhaps, embedded systems, definately) it will remain significant for some time, if not outright dominant.

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