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