Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/5] gettext: fix bug in git-sh-i18n's eval_gettext() by using envsubst(1)
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
- Date
- Nov 9, 2010, 12:53 UTC
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Am 11/9/2010 13:38, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
> I understood your previous comments to mean that the invocation time > of git-* on one hand and cat(1) on the other hand had to do with how > many DLL's the former needed.
I was only guessing; I can't explain the timing difference.
> Since git-sh-i18n--envsubst needs the same DLL's (i.e. the libc) as > cat(1) and *nothing else* it should be as fast as cat(1) and not as > slow as git-*(1) once I fix that unfortunate Makefile bug, right?
Wrong. Please accept it as a fact (and I'll forgive your ignorance ;) I would like to spend the time explaining the reasons only if you want to compile git on Windows yourself.
-- Hannes