Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > With that strategy, we'd have to have a big initialize_defaults() > function. Which actually might not be _too_ bad since we now have > common-main.c, but: > > - it sucks to keep the default values far away from the declarations > > - it does carry a runtime cost. Not a huge one, but it sucks to pay it > on every program startup, even if we're not using those variables. True, and s/even if/even though most of the time/ the situation is even worse X-<.
