On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:38:52 +0530 "Arun Raghavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > - it doubles the number of file reads necessary during resolution. > > The first read will cause the file to be cached for subsequent reads > anyway, so the performance hit boils down to an additional read() call > (which will probably be buffered by your file I/O library anyway, so > it's unlikely to even result in a context switch). And even without, > it is well worth the lack of fugliness in the ebuild name.
No, it results in a new open() on a file that's elsewhere on disk, which results in two new seeks. You get about fifty seeks per second. > > - it heavily restricts future syntax and meaning of EAPIs > > Not by much. It's just a header. <!-- EAPI="3" --> -- Ciaran McCreesh
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