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Subject: Re: HEADS UP - master/slave ports
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On 17 Jun 2004 at 19:19, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I created a script which invoked the command 15,000 times.
> >
> > The original patch:
> >
> > real    15m54.561s
> > user    10m40.866s
> > sys     5m1.405s
> >
> > The patch derived in this thread:
> >
> > real    15m48.481s
> > user    10m39.745s
> > sys     4m54.753s
> >
> > Confession: Yes, this isn't a very subjective test, but it's a place
> > to start from if someone is concerned about the performance issues
> > herein.
> 
> Note that Kris was very concerned adding a single `test', which is a
> shell-builtin, to bsd.port.mk:
>    <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-
> ports/2004-June/012941.html>
> 
> I guess he won't be very happy with spawning two processes.

Are you comparing the patches presented with that in the above URL?  
Are you suggesting we should abandon this?
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/