From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:39:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Makefile: make command-list.h 2-5x as fast with -jN
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTX+zbO6QJeWR1yu6Fe+wmhHFqd-=mp_GpwFMLYBbu5DA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <211021.86v91rmftn.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 7:34 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20 2021, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > But I don't think we even need to, since we could just rely on Awk. That
> > has all the benefits you described while still avoiding the circular
> > dependency on libgit.a. But the killer feature is that we don't have to
> > rely on two implementations, the lesser-used of which is likely to
> > bitrot over time.
>
> Per Eric's Sunshine's upthread comments an awk and Perl implementation
> were both considered before[1].
> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cSzKoOzU-zPOZqfNpPYBFpcWqvDP3mwLvAn5WkiNW0UMw@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks for saving me the trouble of digging up that email reference.