Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:35:19AM CET: >> Let's go again. I retimed the effect of upgrading from 2.61 to after >> the whole series of patches, and I get a 45-55% reduction in autoconf >> execution time (approx. 20% are already there in 2.63) and 30-35% >> reduction in configure script size. In other words, with the latest >> patches the complexity of m4sh processing is lowered, and the speedup >> is more consistent with the decrease in output size. > > Out of curiosity, how much of the speedup is attributable to > improvements in m4 (or did you use the same version throughout) > and to the changes between 2.61 and 2.63?
I'll measure. > It looks to me like overall, the shell function changes will make user > code even more reliant on correct M4 quotation than before. Why? Anyway, shell functions will have to be mentioned in NEWS. Paolo
