Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: clean up tla help

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 28 Nov 2005 12:39:46 -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:25:49AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > On 22 Nov 2005 11:00:14 -0800, Derek Zhou wrote:
> > > 
> > > By looking at the code, I get the feeling that people invented rbrowse
> > > because the code in abrowse is too messy to fix. 
> > 
> > Messy or not, but it is much faster and more functional (minus regexps).
> > It's very important whether the same input works 20 seconds or 2 minutes.
> 
> The running time for both abrowse and rbrowse should be almost identical,
> as both get the same data from the same source. Normally, people say that
> abrowse feels quicker because it doesn't buffer the output. For abrowse,
> one gets output immediately. For rbrowse, one has to wite until its done.

Did you read the summer threads ("Obsoleting abrowse"), when we with
Matthieu Moy discussed the ui and speed issues of abrowse versus rbrowse?

If you give some limit, like category--branch, then you may easily get
20 seconds versus 2 minutes speed difference for a tla archive format.

BTW, if any work for uniting these commands into one is to be done in
tla, then the mentioned discussions and findings are quite valuable.

Regards,
Mikhael.