On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:06:20 -0800 Michael Forney <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Michael, > There is a slight performance benefit, but it is pretty negligible due > to system call overhead. I tested du(1) on an extracted linux-5.4.6 > source tree and saw an improvement of about 4-5% on my system > (comparing average of 20 runs). > > I think the main benefit is the decreased stack usage and the > possibility to refactor other tools like cp to share the recurse code > (since now the base name is passed by itself). this is really cool! 4-5% is definitely quite a bit and I would not call it negligible. Keep up the great work! With best regards Laslo
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