From: Johannes Sixt Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 05:27:40 GMT Subject: Re: Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite Message-ID: <4d97fcc7-d15b-e7d8-c787-483c67d4a66b@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: <20161020213803.7d7bymby7pouzij3@sigill.intra.peff.net> Am 20.10.2016 um 23:38 schrieb Jeff King: > test_cmp () { > # optimize for common "they are the same" case > # without any subshells or subprograms We do this already on Windows; it's the function mingw_test_cmp in our test suite: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/t/test-lib-functions.sh#L884-L945 -- Hannes