Re: [PATCH 0/4] i18n: Add shell script translation infrastructure

> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 19:03, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 14:10, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This adds skeleton no-op functions to git-sh-i18n.sh analogous to the
>>> gettext.c skeleton functions for C, adds *.sh scripts to the "pot"
>>> target for message extraction, and updates the git-sh-i18n--envsubst
>>> tests to use the new test_i18ncmp function.
>>
>> I seem to remember there were some concerns about performance with a
>> previous version of this series. Have you done any before/after
>> timings on, say, the git test suite? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
>
> When I benchmark this on my (Linux) system it runs at 0% difference
> between the current test suite and the one with this series.
>
> The concern was about Windows, where forks are more expensive, so
> e.g. every time we shell out to sed/awk/perl/grep or
> git-sh-i18n--envsubst we incur a larger speed hit than on Unix
> systems.