-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 12/2/2008 3:11 PM: >> Also, does this attempt to shave processes in the autoconf testsuite look >> valid? [Lest you get a mistaken idea about my abilities, my sed-foo isn't >> that >> strong: I had to copy liberally from the 'info sed' manual.] > > Is it really that important to shave a process here? Wow. Personally > I'd stick with "sort -u".
$ grep AC_STATE_SAVE\( tests/testsuite | wc -l 591 Of which, many instances are inside generated configure.ac files where the testsuite then runs the configure script multiple times. So shaving a process here shaves more than 1000 forks off the total testsuite time, with a noticeable impact on cygwin. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk12soACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAFUgCeL4wffMu2WvbgI9iuqjYnlTZV 3g0An38bn5uIQdkndeXibjFzLs7TOB+i =35Gb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
