On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Did anyone provide differences in speed when using the bash "realpath" to >> the actual binary one? My guess is that the speed difference will be >> minimal, even when regenerating an entire repo db, but it would pay to >> check. > > I agree, especially after the speed differences Xavier pointed out > with my other repo-add patch. >
bash realpath real 0m3.138s user 0m0.887s sys 0m1.710s readlink -f real 0m0.734s user 0m0.210s sys 0m0.507s Before moving forward, I have a question : is there any good and portable way to convert between absolute and relative paths? I don't see any reason for doing any symlinks resolution anywhere. The only thing we need is to convert a given path (which can be either absolute or relative) to an absolute path. We need this because we are changing directories, and these paths have to stay valid so have to be absolute. Another alternative for getting rid of realpath/readlink is to avoid changing directories in the first place. This might also be possible but probably requires more work. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
