Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:25:46 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Message-ID: <20010104182546.T86630@argon.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700 References: <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101041905.f04J5ou82617@freefall.freebsd.org> <200101041909.OAA61522@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010104172004.P86630@argon.firepipe.net> <200101042320.f04NKm147924@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:20:48PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > First off, we do still have a significant part of the user base that > is using older, slower machines. Many of them run embedded systems, > some of which use apply(1). I have a big problem with this argument > since it is doesn't understand the wide range of environments that > FreeBSD runs in and runs very well in. I know we do, but I (as you say in the your next paragraph) was trying to point out that the extra checking wasn't likely to slow things down much, and I think it's worth the extra cycles. Please don't get me wrong; if I thought it was gratuitous, I wouldn't have done that in the first place. > I'm still not sure about the shell environment actually buying > anything, but I could see how it might help. I'm not understanding what you're saying here. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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