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Re: Horrible re-packing?

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2006, 21:22 UTC
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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Olivier Galibert wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Comments?
> 
> Why don't you just sort the full path+filename with a strcmp variant
> that starts by the end of the string for comparison?  May at least be
> simpler to understand.
Much more expensive for both memory usage and CPU cycles.
Nicolas
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  4. Junio C HamanoJun 5, 2006
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2006
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  7. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2006
  8. Olivier GalibertJun 5, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreJun 5, 2006
  10. Chris WedgwoodJun 6, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 6, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2006
  13. Nicolas PitreJun 5, 2006
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