Re: [RFA] autotest speedup

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > One minor thing: at_check_newline is trace-specific (it doesn't merely
> > check newlines; it does other stuff).  So we might as well migrate the
> > "test -n" business into at_check_newline, no?  It'll make the code
> > shorter and easier to read.  And perhaps its name could be changed to
> > "at_check_traceable" or something like that.
>
> I disagree because you can omit the test completely if the 
> nontraceability is determined at m4 time.

Huhm, sorry, I was not thinking.  I'll prepare a follow-up.

Paolo