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From: Arun Raghavan <arunisgod@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:20:14
Message-Id: c1c082b90806100708rb73b873qd618a639e0721fe7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 [...]
4 > - it doubles the number of file reads necessary during resolution.
5
6 The first read will cause the file to be cached for subsequent reads
7 anyway, so the performance hit boils down to an additional read() call
8 (which will probably be buffered by your file I/O library anyway, so
9 it's unlikely to even result in a context switch). And even without,
10 it is well worth the lack of fugliness in the ebuild name.
11
12 > - it heavily restricts future syntax and meaning of EAPIs
13
14 Not by much. It's just a header.
15
16 > - it makes comments have meaning
17
18 Just as much as #!/bin/bash and # vim: ... do
19
20 Regards,
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22 Arun Raghavan
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