Michael Geng wrote: > I could imagine that especially for the Coreutils speed might be more a > concern than for other tools because some of the Coreutils tools are > called very often.
I would expect that the time loading the executable would swamp any possible option processing. This is really something that would need a benchmark in order to produce real data. Often the results are not intuitive and the opposite of what might be expected. > And I would also expect that with Genparse you also get smaller code > than with argp again because it does part of the work while it > generates the parser code while argp is a library function and so it > does everything at run time. Without committing one way or the other I think it could go either way. :-) Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
