Is cogito really this inefficient

From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Jul 13, 2005, 12:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20050713135052.C6791@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

This says it all. 1min 22secs to generate a patch from a locally modified but uncommitted file.

cp, edit, diff would be several orders of magnitude faster. What's going on?

$ /usr/bin/time cg-diff drivers/serial/8250.c > o Command exited with non-zero status 1 14.40user 17.47system 1:22.96elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (180major+14692minor)pagefaults 0swaps

diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -2333,6 +2333,7 @@ static int __devinit serial8250_probe(st
 			dev_err(dev, "unable to register port at index %d "
 				"(IO%lx MEM%lx IRQ%d): %d\n", i,
 				p->iobase, p->mapbase, p->irq, ret);
+			printk(KERN_ERR "uartclk was %d\n", port.uartclk);
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;

-- 
Russell King