From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:09:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] more tr portability test script fixes
Message-ID: <20080313130918.GI19485@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080313082807.GT10103@mail-vs.djpig.de>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:28:07AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

> > -    tr '\000' '\012' <"$1" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-1
> > -    tr '\000' '\012' <"$2" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-2
> > +    perl -pe 'y/\000/\012/' <"$1" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-1
> > +    perl -pe 'y/\000/\012/' <"$2" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-2
> 
> It might make sense performance-wise to integrate the job of the sed
> call into the perl call here. Haven't tested it, though.

Probably. My changes were pretty mechanical, and I tried to keep them as
small as possible.

I'm not sure we care too much about an extra fork in a test script for
performance, though it would probably end up more readable.

-Peff