G'day,
There seems to be this strange misconception that Squid-3 is a "rewrite" of Squid in C++. I am not sure where this particular little tidbit gets copy/pasted from but just for the record:
Squid-3 is the continuation of Squid-2.5, made to compile using the GNU C++ compiler. It is not a rewrite.
If Squid-3 -were- a rewrite, and the resultant code -was- as much of a crappy-performing, bastardised C/C++ hybrid, then I'd have suggested the C++ coders in question need to relearn C++. Luckily for them, the codebase is a hybrid of C and C++ because it did just start as a C codebase with bits and pieces part-migrated to C++.
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I think I just found the source of the "rewrite" claim. From the Squid 3.0 release notes:
ReplyDelete* Convert core squid source to C++ (Robert Collins).
I can see how this could be misunderstood to be a "rewrite in C++"