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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > in the general case, dash will typically parse faster than bash. but is |
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> > this speed gain relevant ? if dash can parse an ebuild in 10% of the |
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> > time that it takes bash, but bash can do it in a 1 second, do we care ? |
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> > the majority of ebuilds are going to take magnitudes larger to get the |
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> > job done |
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> > (running ./configure && make). |
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> You may want to parse an ebuild not just for building it ^^ |
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true ... but i'd have to wonder if there's anything worth parsing out that the |
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pregenerated metadata does not provide for you ... i guess if you want to |
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parse an ebuild that isnt in the tree thus lacks metadata ... but we further |
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marginalize the use ... |
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-mike |
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