Re: func_arith and func_len

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Let's reuse at_func_arith from Autotest, to redo one of the link mode
> speedups that fell under the cracks a couple of years ago.
>
> IIRC somebody else suggested this recently, but I don't remember who.
> Please speak up so I can put your name in the ChangeLog entry.

Roland Mainz <address@hidden> (OpenSolaris/Ksh93 guy) is the 
suitable party to blame.

> Note that for pre-Posix shells, the number of forks doubles in those
> loops (but the quadratic counting is not present there either); for
> practical cases that will lead to a slow-down with those shells.
>
> OK to apply?

For these kind of dramatic improvements, I think that the users should 
be paying a much higher fee.  I propose that the fee be increased to 
35% more than they are paying today.

I do not see anything wrong with the patch.  Please apply it.

Bob
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