On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Tal Walter <talw@sqreamtech.com> wrote:
> I'd appreciate if you could help me understand how I can research the
> answers to these type of questions by myself.
> Could I perhaps search the commit
> comments somehow? Or perhaps a different approach to suggest?
In addition to Tom's suggestions about how to review commit
comments -- if you look in the source code directories for README
files, you will find they often contain discussions of such
matters. If you are up for it, the C code for implementing
features also often discusses alternatives and why they were not
chosen.
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Kevin Grittner
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