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Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test. |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:11:11 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22) |
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:06:04PM CEST:
> At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > No. You save a fork with
> >
> > foo ()
> > {
> > ...
> > foo_result=bar
> > }
> >
> > foo ARG...
> > test "$foo_result" = ...
> >
> Yes, but how do you get foo_result in our case? ;-)
With sed, of course.
> > which we've been doing a lot in Libtool and Autoconf lately.
> Yes, but using XSI variable substitutions and shell arithmetic, not
> complex sed scripts.
That's not what I meant. We are using more than one strategy to speed
up things.
> Or am I missing something?
I think you are. You proposed
result=`foo ...`
test "$result" = ...
which is an extra fork over the above, regardless of what foo does
internally.
Cheers,
Ralf
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test., Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08
- avoiding forks in shell scripts (was: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/08/08
- Re: avoiding forks in shell scripts (was: [PATCH] Modernize, improve and/or extend tests `colon*.test.), Stefano Lattarini, 2010/08/08