Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:12 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Akinori MUSHA <knu@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 Message-ID: <200111211058.fALAwDj01626@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> of "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:52:10 %2B0200." <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:33:59 PST, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
>
> > Log:
> > Remove the printf builtin command from sh(1), which command is not
> > used so often that it's worth keeping it as a builtin.
>
> "not used so often that it's more worthwhile keeping than test(1)."
>
> To be clear, the builtin printf(1) is being removed to make space for the
> builtin test(1), because
>
> 1) test(1) is _much_ more frequently used than printf(1)
>
> 2) since printf(1) and test(1) are approximately the same size,
> the change can't be criticized as "bloat".
I would have thought it useful to leave both test & printf as
builtins... it's only a few k of space after all.
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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