Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch lkml

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:17:27PM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:43, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> >
> >
> >> In practical terms it doesn't matter---tla is now nice and fast, and
> >> this would slow it down, quite possibly unacceptably.  If the
> >> performance issues turned out to be not so bad, though, it feels like
> >> a possibility for some new system.
> >
> > Maybe I'm just arch-blind, but what does this idea buy you?
> 
> Arch taglines are purely for Arch's benefit.  These keywords would be
> like their RCS equivalents---they'd show the relative pathname, and
> could contain other bits of useful information too.  So they might be
> easier to push on developers who don't care about Arch, and if they
> were present, you could reasonably expect other developers to grok
> what they were and to leave them alone.
> 
> Would those advantages be sufficient?  I doubt it---I suspect the
> performance hit makes the idea unworkable for such a small benefit.

Screw the performance hit. It forces tools like make to rebuild the
entrie tree, and that's just no damn good if you're using to having a
decent build system.

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