On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Let's reuse at_func_arith from Autotest, to redo one of the link mode
speedups that fell under the cracks a couple of years ago.
IIRC somebody else suggested this recently, but I don't remember who.
Please speak up so I can put your name in the ChangeLog entry.
Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (OpenSolaris/Ksh93 guy) is the
suitable party to blame.
Note that for pre-Posix shells, the number of forks doubles in those
loops (but the quadratic counting is not present there either); for
practical cases that will lead to a slow-down with those shells.
OK to apply?
For these kind of dramatic improvements, I think that the users should
be paying a much higher fee. I propose that the fee be increased to
35% more than they are paying today.
I do not see anything wrong with the patch. Please apply it.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
