On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I haven't looked at this in detail yet, but if this solution is more >> portable and has no feature loss, why not use it by default? >> > > I had the same question :P
My guess would be optimization - that calling a C binary may be faster than a bash loop. Not sure though, just a guess. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
